Expression, regulation, and requirement of the toll transmembrane protein during dorsal vessel formation in Drosophila melanogaster

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 4200-4210

  Wang, Jianbo ^a   Tao, Ye ^a   Reim, Ingolf ^b   Gajewski, Kathleen ^a   Frasch, Manfred ^b   Schulz, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN TOLL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DORSOCROSS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TINMAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; GENE MUTATION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEART; MESODERM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; MYOBLASTS, CARDIAC; MYOCARDIUM; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 18144386920     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.25.10.4200-4210.2005     Document Type: Article

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