Drosophila myoblast city encodes a conserved protein that is essential for myoblast fusion, dorsal closure, and cytoskeletal organization

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 589-603

  Erickson, Mary Ruth S ^a   Galletta, Brian J ^a   Abmayr, Susan M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUSION; CYTOSKELETON; DROSOPHILA; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EPIDERMIS; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESODERM; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL FUSION; CELL MOVEMENT; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ECTODERM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; HUMANS; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MESODERM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUSCLE FIBERS; PROTEINS; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030816709     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.138.3.589     Document Type: Article

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