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C. elegans patched-3 is an essential gene implicated in osmoregulation and requiring an intact permease transporter domain.
Developmental biology - 15 Mar 2011
Soloviev Alexander, Gallagher Joseph, Marnef Aline, Kuwabara Patricia E
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The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has retained a rudimentary Hedgehog (Hh) signalling pathway; Hh and Smoothened (Smo) homologs are absent, but two highly related Patched gene homologs, ptc-1 and ptc-3, and 24 ptc-related (ptr) genes are present. We previously showed that ptc-1 is essential for germ line cytokinesis. Here, we report that ptc-3 is also an essential gene; the absence of ptc-3 results in a late...
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