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Zebrafish Prickle1b mediates facial branchiomotor neuron migration via a farnesylation-dependent nuclear activity.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 May 2011
Mapp Oni M, Walsh Gregory S, Moens Cecilia B, Tada Masazumi, Prince Victoria E
Abstract excerpt
The facial branchiomotor neurons (FBMNs) undergo a characteristic tangential migration in the vertebrate hindbrain. We previously used a morpholino knockdown approach to reveal that zebrafish prickle1b (pk1b) is required for this migration. Here we report that FBMN migration is also blocked in a pk1b mutant with a disruption in the consensus farnesylation motif. We confirmed that this lipid modification is...
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