Slit proteins bind robo receptors and have an evolutionarily conserved role in repulsive axon guidance

Cell

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 795-806

  Brose, Katja ^a   Bland, Kimberly S ^b   Kuan, Hong Wang ^a   Arnott, David ^c   Henzel, William ^c   Goodman, Corey S ^b   Tessier Lavigne, Marc ^a   Kidd, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GENENTECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RECEPTOR BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0033582914     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80590-5     Document Type: Article

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