EGF receptor signalling protects smooth-cuticle cells from apoptosis during Drosophila ventral epidermis development

Development

Volumn 131, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1835-1845

  Urban, Sinisa ^a,b   Brown, Gemma ^a,c   Freeman, Matthew ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Neurologic Diseases   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cuticle; Denticle belt fusion; EGF receptor; Epidermis; Intramembrane proteolysis; Pointed; Rhomboid; Spitz group

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; LIGAND; NEU DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; WNT1 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CELL FUSION; CELL PROTECTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DROSOPHILA; EPIDERMIS; EPIDERMIS CELL; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INSECT CELL; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; MAMMAL; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPIDERMIS; LIGANDS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 2342434332     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01058     Document Type: Article

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