Activation of Snake in a serine protease cascade that defines the dorsoventral axis is atypical and pipe-independent in Drosophila embryos

FEBS Letters

Volumn 584, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 3557-3560

  Steen, Pamela W ^a   Tian, Sufang ^a,b   Tully, Sarah E ^c   Cravatt, Benjamin F ^c   LeMosy, Ellen K ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b ZHONGNAN HOSPITAL OF WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsoventral polarity; Drosophila; Embryogenesis; Fluorophosphonate (FP) rhodamine; Serine protease; Snake

Indexed keywords

ENZYME PRECURSOR; SERINE PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; SULFOTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME REGULATION; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BODY PATTERNING; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; MUTATION; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SULFOTRANSFERASES;

EID: 77955661539     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2010.07.020     Document Type: Article

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