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Drosophila Dok is required for embryonic dorsal closure.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Jan 2006
Biswas Romi, Stein David, Stanley E Richard
Abstract excerpt
Embryonic dorsal closure (DC) in Drosophila is a series of morphogenetic movements involving the bilateral dorsal movement of the epidermis (cell stretching) and dorsal suturing of the leading edge (LE) cells to enclose the viscera. The Syk family tyrosine kinase Shark plays a crucial role in this Jun amino-terminal kinase (JNK)-dependent process, where it acts upstream of JNK in LE cells. Using a yeast...
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