Drosophila integrins

VWA Integrin /3-subunits Chick collagen ai(VI) VWA (822-999) PSI-BLAST (2) 8 X 10 Drosophila integrin /3 subunit... 

Bogaert TN, Brown N, Wilcox M. The Drosophila PS2 antigen is an invertebrate integrin that, like the fibronectin receptor, becomes localized to muscle attachments. Cell 1987 51 929-940. 

Brabant, M. and Brower, D. (1993). PS2 integrin requirements in Drosophila embryo and wing morphogenesis. Dev. Biol. 757 49-59. 

Blair, S.S., Brower, D.L., Thomas, J.B., Zavortink, M. 1994. The role of apterous in the control of dorsoventral compartmentalization and PS integrin gene expression in the developing wing of Drosophila. Development 120, 1805-1815. 

Adhesion molecules, proteins responsible for interactions between cells and their environment, especially, the extracellular matrix and other cells. Several different molecules act as cell adhesion receptors such as integrins, intercellular adhesion molecules (ICAM), leukocyte LFA-1, Mac-1 and pl50/95 molecules, the fibronectin receptor complex fibronectin), tenascin, and the position-specific (PS) antigens of Drosophila. 

Levi, B., Ghabrial, A. Krasnow, M. A. (2006). Drosophila talin and integrin genes are required for maintenance of tracheal terrninal branches and luminal organization. Development 133,2383-93. 

Prokop A., Martin-Bermudo M.D., Bate M., and Brown N.H. 1998. Absence of PS integrins or laminin A affects extracellular adhesion, but not intracellular assembly, of hemiadherens and neuromuscular junctions in Drosophila embryos. Dev. Biol. 196 58-96. 

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