Antagonist activity of DWnt-4 and wingless in the Drosophila embryonic ventral ectoderm and in heterologous Xenopus assays

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 85, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 123-131

  Gieseler, Kathrin ^a,d   Graba, Yacine ^a   Mariol, Marie Christine ^a   Wilder, Elizabeth L ^b   Martinez Arias, Alfonso ^c   Lemaire, Patrick ^a   Pradel, Jacques ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Armadillo catenin; Axis formation; Drosophila; DWnt 4; Embryogenesis; Ventral ectoderm patterning; Wingless; Wnt signalling; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIDERMIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; WNT PROTEINS; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; ARMADILLO; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0033166978     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(99)00097-0     Document Type: Article

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