Masquerade: a novel secreted serine protease-like molecule is required for somatic muscle attachment in the Drosophila embryo.

doi:10.1101/gad.9.2.139

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Masquerade: a novel secreted serine protease-like molecule is required for somatic muscle attachment in the Drosophila embryo.

Genes & development - 15 Jan 1995

Murugasu-Oei B, Rodrigues V, Yang X, Chia W

Abstract excerpt

Diverse developmental processes, such as neuronal growth cone migration and cell shape changes, are mediated by the interactions of cells with the extracellular matrix. We describe here a secreted molecule encoded by the Drosophila masquerade (mas) gene. Total loss of mas function causes defective muscle attachment. This mutant phenotype suggests that mas normally acts to stabilize cell-matrix interaction and...

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Alleles
Amino Acid Sequence
Animals
Base Sequence
Cloning, Molecular
DNA Transposable Elements
Drosophila
Drosophila Proteins
Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
Genes, Insect
Molecular Sequence Data

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Muscles

Mutation

Protein Precursors

Proteins

RNA, Messenger

Sequence Alignment

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PMID: 7851790
DOI: 10.1101/gad.9.2.139

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