The GEX-2 and GEX-3 proteins are required for tissue morphogenesis and cell migranons in C. elegans

Genes and Development

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 620-632

  Soto, Martha C ^a,b   Qadota, Hiroshi ^c   Kasuya, Katsuhisa ^c   Inoue, Makiko ^c   Tsuboi, Daisuke ^c,d   Mello, Craig C ^a,b   Kaibuchi, Kozo ^c,d  

^a Program in Molecular Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Cell migration; Epidermal morphogenesis; Tissue formation

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN GEX 2; PROTEIN GEX 3; RAC PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTION; CELL SHAPE; DROSOPHILA; GENE; GEX 2 GENE; GEX 3 GENE; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENES, HELMINTH; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; OVIPOSITION; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036499989     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.955702     Document Type: Article

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