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Interaction of bride of sevenless membrane-bound ligand and the sevenless tyrosine-kinase receptor.
Nature - 18 Jul 1991
Krämer H, Cagan R L, Zipursky S L
Abstract excerpt
During development of the Drosophila retina, the R8 photoreceptor neuron induces a neighbouring cell to assume an R7 cell fate. Genetic data suggest that the induction is mediated by two transmembrane proteins encoded by bride of sevenless and sevenless. A direct interaction between these two proteins was demonstrated by the heterotypic aggregation of cell lines expressing them. In the developing eye the...
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