DmMyD88 controls dorsoventral patterning of the Drosophila embryo

EMBO Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 64-69

  Kambris, Zakaria ^a   Bilak, Hana ^a   D'Alessandro, Rosalba ^a   Belvin, Marcia ^b   Imler, Jean Luc ^a   Capovilla, Maria ^a  

^a Inst de Biol Moleculaine Cell   (France)

^b EXELIXIS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MYELOID DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 88; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; HOMOZYGOSITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; TRANSPOSON;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EGG PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOTYPE; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MYELOID DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 88; OOCYTES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS; ZYGOTE;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 0037219193     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.embor714     Document Type: Article

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