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SUBMITTER: Ishikawa HO
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2562711 | biostudies-other | 2008 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Ishikawa Hiroyuki O HO Takeuchi Hideyuki H Haltiwanger Robert S RS Irvine Kenneth D KD
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20080701 5887
The atypical cadherin Fat acts as a receptor for a signaling pathway that regulates growth, gene expression, and planar cell polarity. Genetic studies in Drosophila identified the four-jointed gene as a regulator of Fat signaling. We show that four-jointed encodes a protein kinase that phosphorylates serine or threonine residues within extracellular cadherin domains of Fat and its transmembrane ligand, Dachsous. Four-jointed functions in the Golgi and is the first molecularly defined kinase that ...[more]