Drosophila Anterior-Posterior Polarity Requires Actin-Dependent PAR-1 Recruitment to the Oocyte Posterior

Current Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1090-1095

  Doerflinger, Hélène ^a   Benton, Richard ^a   Torres, Isabel L ^a   Zwart, Maarten F ^a   St Johnston, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CELLBIO; DEVBIO

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; PAR 1 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; PAR-1 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; PROTEIN KINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

ACTINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 33744546043     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.04.001     Document Type: Article

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