Engineered truncations in the Drosophila mastermind protein disrupt Notch pathway function

Developmental Biology

Volumn 215, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 358-374

  Helms, Whitney ^a   Lee, Hyung ^a   Ammerman, Matthew ^a   Parks, Annette L ^b   Muskavitch, Marc A T ^b   Yedvobnick, Barry ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Mastermind; Notch pathway; Notum; Wing margin

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL FATE; DROSOPHILA; FORELIMB; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSE ORGAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 0033571390     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9477     Document Type: Article

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