Cadherin complexity: Recent insights into cadherin superfamily function in C. elegans

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 695-701

  Loveless, Timothy ^a   Hardin, Jeff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ALPHA CATENIN; CADHERIN; CALSYNTENIN 1; CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; PROTEIN CDH 1; PROTEIN CDH 10; PROTEIN CDH 12; PROTEIN CDH 3; PROTEIN CDH 4; PROTEIN CDH 5; PROTEIN CDH 7; PROTEIN CDH 8; PROTEIN CDH 9; PROTEIN FMI 1; PROTEIN HMR 1; PROTEIN SAX 7; PROTEIN SRGP 1; RAC PROTEIN; ROUNDABOUT RECEPTOR; SLIT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ADHESION; CELL SURFACE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; MORPHOGENESIS; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW;

ACTINS; ADHERENS JUNCTIONS; ANIMALS; CADHERINS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CATENINS; CELL ADHESION; GASTRULATION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; METAZOA;

EID: 84867839833     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: 18790410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2012.06.008     Document Type: Review

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