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Multiple ephrins control cell organization in C. elegans using kinase-dependent and -independent functions of the VAB-1 Eph receptor.
Molecular cell - 1 Dec 1999
Wang X, Roy P J, Holland S J, Zhang L W, Culotti J G, Pawson T
Abstract excerpt
Eph receptor (EphR) tyrosine kinases and their ephrin ligands mediate direct cell-to-cell signaling. The C. elegans genome encodes four potential GPI-modified ephrins (EFN-1 to -4) and one EphR (VAB-1). Single and multiple ephrin mutants reveal functions for EFN-1, EFN-2, and EFN-3 in epidermal cell organization that, in aggregate, mirror those of VAB-1. Ephrin mutants have defects in head morphology and...
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