Crumbs, the Drosophila homologue of human CRB1/RP12, is essential for photoreceptor morphogenesis

Nature

Volumn 416, Issue 6877, 2002, Pages 143-149

  Pellikka, Milena ^a   Tanentzapf, Guy ^a   Pinto, Madalena ^a   Smith, Christian ^b   McGlade, C Jane ^b   Ready, Donald F ^c   Tepass, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; MUTAGENESIS; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PROTEINS;

PHOTORECEPTORS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN CRUMBS; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SPECTRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOCHEMISTRY; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION;

ANIMAL CELL; APICAL MEMBRANE; ARTICLE; CELL POLARITY; DROSOPHILA; GENE MUTATION; HISTOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETINA DYSTROPHY; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA;

ADHERENS JUNCTIONS; ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL POLARITY; CYTOSKELETON; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; PROTEIN BINDING; RETINA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECTRIN;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0037075580     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature721     Document Type: Article

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