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Induction of a secondary body axis in Xenopus by antibodies to beta-catenin.
The Journal of cell biology - 1 Oct 1993
McCrea P D, Brieher W M, Gumbiner B M
Abstract excerpt
We have obtained evidence that a known intracellular component of the cadherin cell-cell adhesion machinery, beta-catenin, contributes to the development of the body axis in the frog Xenopus laevis. Vertebrate beta-catenin is homologous to the Drosophila segment polarity gene product armadillo, and to vertebrate plakoglobin (McCrea, P. D., C. W. Turck, and B. Gumbiner. 1991. Science (Wash. DC). 254: 1359-1361.)....
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