Strabismus promotes recruitment and degradation of farnesylated prickle in Drosophila melanogaster planar polarity specification.

The core planar polarity proteins are required to specify the orientation of structures that are polarised in the plane of the epithelium. In the Drosophila melanogaster wing, the core proteins localise asymmetrically at either proximal or distal cell edges. Asymmetric localisation is thought to be...

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Main Authors: Helen Strutt, Vickie Thomas-MacArthur, David Strutt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3715439?pdf=render