Epidermal growth factor pathway signaling in Drosophila embryogenesis: Tools for understanding cancer

Cancers

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Lusk, Jay B ^a   Lam, Vanessa Y M ^a   Tolwinski, Nicholas S ^a,b  

^a YALE NUS COLLEGE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Drosophila development; EGF signaling; MAP kinase; MEK; RAF; RAS

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; LIGAND; LIGAND SPI; LIGAND VEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE; PROTEIN ARGOS; PROTEIN STAR; RAF PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN; RHOMBOID 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS CONCERNING THE ENTIRE ORGANISM; CELL ADHESION; CELL FATE; CELL POLARITY; CELL RECRUITMENT; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL VIABILITY; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; CELLULAR, SUBCELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; CHORDOTONAL ORGAN; COMPLEX FORMATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DORSAL MIDLINE CELL; DORSAL MIDLINE PATTERNING; DORSAL VENTRAL PATTERNING; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE; GRK GENE; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR REGULATION; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUSCLE ATTACHMENT; NEUROECTODERM; NON NEUROECTODERMAL VENTRAL PATTERNING; NONHUMAN; OENOCYTE; ORGAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TENDON; TRACHEAL INVAGINATION; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; YAN GENE;

EID: 85012913849     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/cancers9020016     Document Type: Review

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