The RhoGAP RGA-2 and LET-502/ROCK achieve a balance of actomyosin-dependent forces in C. elegans epidermis to control morphogenesis

Development

Volumn 134, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 2469-2479

  Diogon, Marie ^a,d   Wissler, Frédéric ^a   Quintin, Sophie ^a   Nagamatsu, Yasuko ^a   Sookhareea, Satis ^a   Landmann, Frédéric ^a   Hutter, Harald ^b,e   Vitale, Nicolas ^c   Labouesse, Michel ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^e SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

ARHGAP20; C. elegans; Epithelial; Morphogenesis; Rho kinase; RhoGAP

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN LET 502; PROTEIN RGA 2; PROTEIN RHO 1; RHO BINDING KINASE; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIDERMIS; EPIDERMIS CELL; MICROFILAMENT; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SKIN;

ACTINS; ACTOMYOSIN; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EPIDERMIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MORPHOGENESIS; MYOSIN-LIGHT-CHAIN PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RHO GTP-BINDING PROTEINS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 34447526642     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.005074     Document Type: Article

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