Cell polarity: no need to reinvent the wheel.
Epithelial cells are polarized along their apical-basal axis and in some cases also within the plane of the epithelium, a phenomenon called planar polarity. Recent studies have now shown that these two types of polarity are controlled by a common set of genes.
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Institut für Genetik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Universitätsstr. 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany. wodarz@uni-duesseldorf.de
D000818:Animals; D002455:Cell Division; D016764:Cell Polarity; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000166:cytology; D020962:Heterotrimeric GTP-Binding Proteins / Q000502:physiology; D015398:Signal Transduction
D020962:Heterotrimeric GTP-Binding Proteins