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Activation of Wnt signaling bypasses the requirement for RTK/Ras signaling during C. elegans vulval induction.
Genes & development - 15 May 2002
Gleason Julie E, Korswagen Hendrik C, Eisenmann David M
Abstract excerpt
During Caenorhabditis elegans vulval development, activation of receptor tyrosine kinase/Ras and Notch signaling pathways causes three vulval precursor cells (VPCs) to adopt induced cell fates. A Wnt signaling pathway also acts in cell fate specification by the VPCs, via regulation of the Hox gene lin-39. We show here that either mutation of pry-1 or expression of an activated BAR-1 beta-catenin protein causes an...
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