Drosophila WntD is a target and an inhibitor of the Dorsal/Twist/Snail network in the gastrulating embryo

Development

Volumn 132, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 3419-3429

  Ganguly, Atish ^a   Jiang, Jin ^b   Ip, Y Tony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsal; Drosophila; Gastrulation; Snail; Toll; WntD

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN WNTD; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TWIST; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME REPRESSION; FEMALE; GASTRULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GASTRULA; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TWIST TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGERS;

ANIMALIA; GASTROPODA;

EID: 24344471404     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01903     Document Type: Article

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