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Differences in levels of the transmembrane protein Crumbs can influence cell survival at clonal boundaries.
Developmental biology - 15 Aug 2012
Hafezi Yassi, Bosch Justin A, Hariharan Iswar K
Abstract excerpt
The survival and growth of individual cells in a tissue can be nonautonomously regulated by the properties of adjacent cells. In mosaic Drosophila imaginal discs, for example, wild-type cells induce the elimination of adjacent slow-growing Minute cells by apoptosis, while, conversely, certain types of faster-growing cells are able to eliminate adjacent wild-type cells. This process, known as cell competition,...
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