Cellular morphogenesis: slow-as-molasses accelerates polarized membrane growth.
Cellularization of the early Drosophila embryo is a modified form of cytokinesis that gives rise to the blastoderm epithelium through polarized membrane growth. The gene slow-as-molasses encodes a novel protein essential for the formation of a plasma membrane domain that initiates membrane growth during cellularization.
Beronja
Slobodan
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Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, M5S 3G5, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Tepass
Ulrich
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D000818:Animals; D002455:Cell Division / Q000502:physiology; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000502:physiology; D004330:Drosophila; D029721:Drosophila Proteins / Q000502:physiology
D029721:Drosophila Proteins