Drosophila Rho-associated kinase (Drok) links Frizzled-mediated planar cell polarity signaling to the actin cytoskeleton

Cell

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 81-91

  Winter, Christopher G ^a   Wang, Bruce ^a   Ballew, Anna ^a,b   Royou, Anne ^c   Karess, Roger ^c   Axelrod, Jeffrey D ^b   Luo, Liqun ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CENTRE DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; RHO KINASE;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; CELL POLARITY; CELL STRUCTURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; EYE MOVEMENT; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; USHER SYNDROME;

EID: 0035815280     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(01)00298-7     Document Type: Article

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