A putative catenin-cadherin system mediates morphogenesis of the caenorhabditis elegans embryo

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 297-308

  Costa, Michael ^a,d   Raich, William ^b   Agbunag, Cristina ^a,c   Leung, Ben ^a,c   Hardin, Jeff ^b   Priess, James R ^a,c  

^a USA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d EXELIXIS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; CATENIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL STRUCTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE LOCATION; GROWTH REGULATION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CADHERINS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CELL MOVEMENT; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EPIDERMIS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM; GENES, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS;

EID: 0032489838     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.141.1.297     Document Type: Article

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