The Drosophila sugarless gene modulates Wingless signaling and encodes an enzyme involved in polysaccharide biosynthesis

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 3565-3573

  Häcker, Udo ^a   Lin, Xinhua ^b   Perrimon, Norbert ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell signalling; Drosophila; Proteoglycan; Sugarless; Wingless

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEOGLYCAN; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO POLARITY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOGLYCAN SYNTHESIS; RECEPTOR BINDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EPIDERMIS; GENES, INSECT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PROTEOGLYCANS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE DEHYDROGENASE;

ERINACEIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0342299882     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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