Moesin contributes an essential structural role in Drosophila photoreceptor morphogenesis

Development

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 725-732

  Karagiosis, Sue A ^a   Ready, Donald F ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; Drosophila melanogaster; ERM; F acin; Moesin; Morphogenesis; Photoreceptor

Indexed keywords

MOESIN; MUTANT PROTEIN;

APICAL MEMBRANE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DOWN REGULATION; DROSOPHILA; GENE FUNCTION; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULL ALLELE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CYTOSKELETON; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; RNA INTERFERENCE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INVERTEBRATA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 1342284853     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00976     Document Type: Article

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