The Caenorhabditis elegans gene lin-17, which is required for certain asymmetric cell divisions, encodes a putative seven-transmembrane protein similar to the Drosophila Frizzled protein

Genes and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 17, 1996, Pages 2189-2197

  Sawa, Hitoshi ^a   Lobel, Leslie ^a,b   Horvitz, H Robert ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric cell division; C. elegans; cell polarity; frizzled; lin 17; lin 44; Wnt genes

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RECEPTOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL POLARITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0029814396     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.17.2189     Document Type: Article

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