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The Drosophila Mst ortholog, hippo, restricts growth and cell proliferation and promotes apoptosis.
Cell - 22 Aug 2003
Harvey Kieran F, Pfleger Cathie M, Hariharan Iswar K
Abstract excerpt
Establishing and maintaining homeostasis is critical to the well-being of an organism and is determined by the balance of cell proliferation and death. Two genes that function together to regulate growth, proliferation, and apoptosis in Drosophila are warts (wts), encoding a serine/threonine kinase, and salvador (sav), encoding a WW domain containing Wts-interacting protein. However, the mechanisms by which sav...
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