Proteolytic processing of the Drosophila Spatzle protein by Easter generates a dimeric NGF-like molecule with ventralising activity

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 72, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 141-148

  DeLotto, Yvonne ^a,b   DeLotto, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b FINSEN LABORATORY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cytokine processing; Dorsal ventral; Nerve growth factor; Spatzle

Indexed keywords

NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; DIMERIZATION; DISULFIDE BOND; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SECRETION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DIMERIZATION; DISULFIDES; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; INSECT PROTEINS; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SPODOPTERA; VITELLINE MEMBRANE;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032033030     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(98)00024-0     Document Type: Article

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