Article
Kakapo, a novel cytoskeletal-associated protein is essential for the restricted localization of the neuregulin-like factor, vein, at the muscle-tendon junction site.
The Journal of cell biology - 30 Nov 1998
Strumpf D, Volk T
Abstract excerpt
In the Drosophila embryo, the correct association of muscles with their specific tendon cells is achieved through reciprocal interactions between these two distinct cell types. Tendon cell differentiation is initiated by activation of the EGF-receptor signaling pathway within these cells by Vein,...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Cell Differentiation
- Cloning, Molecular
- Cytoskeletal Proteins
- DNA Primers
- DNA, Complementary
- Drosophila
- Drosophila Proteins
- Genes, Insect
- Insect Proteins
- Microfilament Proteins
- Muscles
- Mutation
- Neuregulins
- Neuromuscular Junction
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Tendons