A Drosophila Axin homolog, Daxin, inhibits Wnt signaling

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 4165-4173

  Willert, Karl ^a   Logan, Catriona Y ^a   Arora, Anup ^a   Fish, Matt ^a   Nusse, Roel ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Axin; Daxin; Drosophila melanogaster; Wnt signaling

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CELL PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARMADILLO DOMAIN PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; EYE; EYE ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVARY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WING; WNT2 PROTEIN;

ANIMALIA; ARMADILLO; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032841989     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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