In the past two decades, extensive studies have focused on a group of so-called polarity proteins that play conserved and essential functions in establishing and maintaining cell polarity in epithelial cells. Among th...In the past two decades, extensive studies have focused on a group of so-called polarity proteins that play conserved and essential functions in establishing and maintaining cell polarity in epithelial cells. Among them, Crumbs (Crb) is the only trans- membrane polarity protein characterized to date (Tepass et al.,展开更多
基金supported by the grants from the National Institutes of Health of USA(NCRR R21RR024869, NIGMS RO1GM086423 and RO1GM121534 to Y.H.)the Start-up Foundation from Nanjing Medical University (2012RC04 to J.H.)University of Pittsburgh Medical School Center for Biologic Imaging was supported by the grant 1S100D019973-01 from NIH, USA
文摘In the past two decades, extensive studies have focused on a group of so-called polarity proteins that play conserved and essential functions in establishing and maintaining cell polarity in epithelial cells. Among them, Crumbs (Crb) is the only trans- membrane polarity protein characterized to date (Tepass et al.,