SIGNAL-TRANSDUCTION AND CELL FATE SPECIFICATION DURING CAENORHABDITIS-ELEGANS VULVAR DEVELOPMENT

被引:47
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EISENMANN, DM
KIM, SK
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[1] Department of Developmental Biology, Beckman Center B300, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford
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10.1016/0959-437X(94)90065-B
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Q2 [细胞生物学];
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071009 ; 090102 ;
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A receptor tyrosine kinase/Ras signaling pathway controls the specification of vulval cell fates in Caenorhabditis elegans. Recently, C. elegans genes encoding proteins with similarity to mammalian Raf (lin-45), mitogen-activated protein kinase (mpk-1/sur-1), and an HNF-3 transcription factor (lin-31) have been identified and shown to act downstream of let-60 (ras) in this pathway. These genetically identified gene products bridge the gap between signal transduction at the plasma membrane and the control of cell fate specification in the nucleus.
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