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Drosophila's insulin/PI3-kinase pathway coordinates cellular metabolism with nutritional conditions.
Developmental cell - 1 Feb 2002
Britton Jessica S, Lockwood Wendy K, Li Ling, Cohen Stephen M, Edgar Bruce A
Abstract excerpt
Studies in Drosophila have characterized insulin receptor/phosphoinositide 3-kinase (Inr/PI3K) signaling as a potent regulator of cell growth, but its function during development has remained uncertain. Here we show that inhibiting Inr/PI3K signaling phenocopies the cellular and organismal effects of starvation, whereas activating this pathway bypasses the nutritional requirement for cell growth, causing...
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