Wnt pathway components orient a mitotic spindle in the early Caenorhabditis elegans embryo without requiring gene transcription in the responding cell

Genes and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 2028-2038

  Schlesinger, Ann ^b   Shelton, Christopher A ^b   Maloof, Julin N ^a,b   Meneghini, Marc ^b   Bowerman, Bruce ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell polarity; Cytoskeleton; Endoderm; Inductive signaling; Mesoderm; Wingless

Indexed keywords

CASEIN KINASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN WNT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL POLARITY; CYTOSKELETON; ENDODERM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0033180094     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.13.15.2028     Document Type: Article

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