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SUBMITTER: Lien WH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2556178 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lien Wen-Hui WH Klezovitch Olga O Fernandez Tania E TE Delrow Jeff J Vasioukhin Valeri V
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20060301 5767
During development, cells monitor and adjust their rates of accumulation to produce organs of predetermined size. We show here that central nervous system-specific deletion of the essential adherens junction gene, alphaE-catenin, causes abnormal activation of the hedgehog pathway, resulting in shortening of the cell cycle, decreased apoptosis, and cortical hyperplasia. We propose that alphaE-catenin connects cell-density-dependent adherens junctions with the developmental hedgehog pathway and th ...[more]