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Caenorhabditis elegans teneurin, ten-1, is required for gonadal and pharyngeal basement membrane integrity and acts redundantly with integrin ina-1 and dystroglycan dgn-1.
Molecular biology of the cell - 1 Sept 2008
Trzebiatowska Agnieszka, Topf Ulrike, Sauder Ursula, Drabikowski Krzysztof, Chiquet-Ehrismann Ruth
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The Caenorhabditis elegans teneurin ortholog, ten-1, plays an important role in gonad and pharynx development. We found that lack of TEN-1 does not affect germline proliferation but leads to local basement membrane deficiency and early gonad disruption. Teneurin is expressed in the somatic precur...
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