Article
Overexpression of cadherins and underexpression of beta-catenin inhibit dorsal mesoderm induction in early Xenopus embryos.
Cell - 2 Dec 1994
Heasman J, Crawford A, Goldstone K, Garner-Hamrick P, Gumbiner B, McCrea P, Kintner C, Noro C Y, Wylie C
Abstract excerpt
The cadherin-catenin complex has an important role in cell-cell adhesion and may also function in signaling pathways. We report that overexpression of three cadherin types in Xenopus embryos causes them to develop with reduced dorsal axial structures. The same phenotype is produced in embryos tha...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Blastocyst
- Blastomeres
- Cadherins
- Cell Aggregation
- Cytoskeletal Proteins
- Embryo, Nonmammalian
- Embryonic Induction
- Immunohistochemistry
- Mesoderm
- Molecular Sequence Data
