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Dominant negative expression of a cytoplasmically deleted mutant of XB/U-cadherin disturbs mesoderm migration during gastrulation in Xenopus laevis.
Mechanisms of development - 1 Jan 1996
Kühl M, Finnemann S, Binder O, Wedlich D
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XB/U-cadherin is a maternal Xenopus cadherin which mediates interblastomere adhesion in early embryogenesis. In order to explore its role in gastrulation, we expressed a cytoplasmic deletion mutant of XB/U-cadherin (XB delta c38) under the control of the CMV promoter in Xenopus embryos. This truncated XB-cadherin fails to form complexes with catenins and does not mediate cell-cell aggregation as shown by...
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