The role of RhoA in tissue polarity and frizzled signalling

Nature

Volumn 387, Issue 6630, 1997, Pages 292-295

  Strutt, David I ^a   Weber, Ursula ^a   Mlodzik, Marek ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CELL POLARITY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FRIZZLED RECEPTORS; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; JNK MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MUTATION; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RHOA GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WING;

SPINY; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030917227     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/387292a0     Document Type: Article

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