Roles of the C terminus of Armadillo in Wingless signaling in Drosophila

Genetics

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 319-332

  Cox, Rachel T ^a   Pai, Li Mei ^a   Kirkpatrick, Catherine ^a   Stein, Joel ^a   Peifer, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARMADILLO; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL ADHESION; CELL INTERACTION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARMADILLO DOMAIN PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CELL MEMBRANE; CROSSES, GENETIC; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FEMALE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE DELETION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0032849916     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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