Frizzled/PCP signalling: A conserved mechanism regulating cell polarity and directed motility

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 126-138

  Seifert, Jessica R K ^a   Mlodzik, Marek ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRIZZLED PROTEIN;

CELL ACTIVATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL POLARITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GASTRULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SCREENING; INSECT CELL CULTURE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL POLARITY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FRIZZLED RECEPTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTEBRATES;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33846396811     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2042     Document Type: Review

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