Drosophila ci(D) encodes a hybrid Pangolin/cubitus interruptus protein that diverts the wingless into the Hedgehog signaling pathway

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 78, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 141-151

  Schweizer, Liang ^a   Basler, Konrad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cubitus interruptus; Hedgehog; Pangolin; Signal transduction; Wingless

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; CI PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HEDGEHOG PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; INSECT PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN; PANGOLIN PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; PTC PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; WINGLESS PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FORELIMB; GENE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSGENE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA; ARMADILLO; CUBITUS; CUBITUS INTERRUPTUS; ERINACEIDAE; HEXAPODA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT PROTEINS; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSGENES; WING;

EID: 0031593793     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(98)00163-4     Document Type: Article

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