The Drosophila genes crumbs and stardust are involved in the biogenesis of adherens junctions

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 951-959

  Grawe, Ferdi ^a   Wodarz, Andreas ^b   Lee, Bill ^c   Knust, Elisabeth ^a   Skaer, Helen ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adherens junctions; Crumbs; Drosophila; Epithelia; Stardust cell polarity

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL JUNCTION; CELL POLARITY; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; EPIDERMIS; FETUS; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ARMADILLO DOMAIN PROTEINS; CADHERINS; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POLARITY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ECTODERM; GENES, INSECT; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0029963058     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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