Variable Combinations of Specific Ephrin Ligand/Eph Receptor Pairs Control Embryonic Tissue Separation
Author(s) -
Nazanin Rohani,
Andrea Parmeggiani,
Rudolf Winklbauer,
François Fagotto
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
plos biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.127
H-Index - 271
eISSN - 1545-7885
pISSN - 1544-9173
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001955
Subject(s) - ephrin , erythropoietin producing hepatocellular (eph) receptor , biology , ectoderm , mesoderm , notochord , microbiology and biotechnology , xenopus , embryonic stem cell , anatomy , genetics , embryo , embryogenesis , receptor tyrosine kinase , signal transduction , gene
Vertebrate embryonic cells recognize self from non-self, thus restricting repulsion at tissue boundaries, through a combination of multiple ephrins and Eph receptors, simply based on binding selectivity and asymmetric expression.
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