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Defective dorsal closure and loss of epidermal decapentaplegic expression in Drosophila fos mutants.
The EMBO journal - 15 Dec 1997
Zeitlinger J, Kockel L, Peverali F A, Jackson D B, Mlodzik M, Bohmann D
Abstract excerpt
Drosophila kayak mutant embryos exhibit defects in dorsal closure, a morphogenetic cell sheet movement during embryogenesis. Here we show that kayak encodes D-Fos, the Drosophila homologue of the mammalian proto-oncogene product, c-Fos. D-Fos is shown to act in a similar manner to Drosophila Jun: in the cells of the leading edge it is required for the expression of the TGFbeta-like Decapentaplegic (Dpp) protein,...
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