Retroactive, a membrane-anchored extracellular protein related to vertebrate snake neurotoxin-like proteins, is required for cuticle organization in the larva of Drosophila melanogaster

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 233, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1056-1063

  Moussian, Bernard ^a   Söding, Johannes ^a   Schwarz, Heinz ^a   Nüsslein Volhard, Christiane ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chitin; Cuticle; Drosophila; Neurotoxin like proteins; Retroactive

Indexed keywords

CD59 ANTIGEN; CHITIN; INSECT PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NEUROTOXIN; PROTEIN RTV; SNAKE VENOM; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CUTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE; INSECT GENETICS; LARVA; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RTV GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EPIDERMIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEAD; INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM; LARVA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEUROTOXINS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SNAKE VENOMS; TRACHEA;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 20744450073     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.20389     Document Type: Article

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