The glycosphingolipid maccer promotes synaptic bouton formation in drosophila by interacting with Wnt

eLife

Volumn 7, Issue , 2018, Pages

  Huang, Yan ^a   Huang, Sheng ^a,b,c   Di Scala, Coralie ^d   Wang, Qifu ^a   Wandall, Hans H ^e   Fantini, Jacques ^f   Zhang, Yong Q ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d INSERM   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^f AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FASCICLIN II; GLYCOSPHINGOLIPID; SERINE PALMITOYLTRANSFERASE; SPHINGOLIPID; SPHINGOSINE KINASE 2; STEROL; SYNTAXIN 1A; WNT PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; WG PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; WNT1 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HIGH PERFORMANCE THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSECT LARVA; LIPID RAFT; MOLECULAR DOCKING; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC BOUTON FORMATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; WNT SIGNALING; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; METABOLISM; NERVE ENDING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GLYCOSPHINGOLIPIDS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; WNT1 PROTEIN;

EID: 85055605718     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.38183     Document Type: Article

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