Article
smoothened encodes a receptor-like serpentine protein required for hedgehog signalling.
Nature - 8 Aug 1996
van den Heuvel M, Ingham P W
Abstract excerpt
Members of the Hedgehog family of secreted proteins control a number of important inductive interactions in the development of both vertebrates and Drosophila, but little is known about the ways in which their signalling activities are transduced. In Drosophila, hedgehog is one of the segment-polarity genes, mutations of which disrupt the pattern and polarity of individual embryonic segments and their adult...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
