Myoblast city, the Drosophila homolog of DOCK180/CED-5, is required in a Rac signaling pathway utilized for multiple developmental processes

Genes and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 3337-3342

  Nolan, Katherine M ^a   Barrett, Kathy ^a   Lu, Yu ^a   Hu, Kang Quan ^a   Vincent, Sylvie ^a   Settleman, Jeffrey ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsal closure; Embryogenesis; GTPases; Morphogenesis; Rac; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GASTRULATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; MORPHOGENESIS; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MYOBLAST; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032213953     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.21.3337     Document Type: Article

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