PUBLICATION
Wnt signalling: a moving picture emerges from van gogh
- Authors
- Heisenberg, C.-P. and Tada, M.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-030116-3
- Date
- 2002
- Source
- Current biology : CB 12(4): R126-R128 (Review)
- Registered Authors
- Heisenberg, Carl-Philipp, Tada, Masazumi
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Drosophila/cytology
- Drosophila/embryology*
- Drosophila/metabolism*
- Epithelial Cells/cytology
- Epithelial Cells/metabolism
- Animals
- Membrane Proteins/metabolism*
- Gastrula/cytology
- Gastrula/metabolism
- Morphogenesis
- Wnt Proteins
- Signal Transduction*
- Cell Polarity
- Drosophila Proteins*
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/metabolism*
- Zebrafish Proteins*
- PubMed
- 11864583 Full text @ Curr. Biol.
Citation
Heisenberg, C.-P. and Tada, M. (2002) Wnt signalling: a moving picture emerges from van gogh. Current biology : CB. 12(4):R126-R128.
Abstract
Recent studies on vertebrate homologues of the van gogh/strabismus (vang/stbm) gene, a key player in planar cell polarity signalling in Drosophila, show that vang/stbm is involved in patterning and morphogenesis during vertebrate gastrulation where it modulates two distinct Wnt signals.
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