Hedgehog signalling: How cholesterol modulates the signal

Current Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2000, Pages

  Ingham, Philip W ^a  

^a MRC Intercellular Signalling Group   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERINACEIDAE;

CHOLESTEROL; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HEDGEHOG PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; INSECT PROTEIN; PROTEOGLYCAN;

ANIMAL; BINDING COMPETITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; FORELIMB; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CHOLESTEROL; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEOGLYCANS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WING;

EID: 0034624818     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(00)00346-8     Document Type: Review

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