Open AccessA New Spin on Planar Cell Polarity
Author(s) -
Patricio Olguı́n,
Marek Mlodzik
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304
H-Index - 776
eISSN - 1097-4172
pISSN - 0092-8674
DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2010.08.025
Subject(s) - frizzled , cell polarity , biology , morphogenesis , polarity (international relations) , microbiology and biotechnology , drosophila melanogaster , cilium , wnt signaling pathway , cell , genetics , signal transduction , gene
The generation of planar cell polarity (PCP) and tissue shape during morphogenesis is tightly linked, but it is not clear how. Aigouy et al. (2010) now show in the developing Drosophila wing that PCP initially has a radial orientation that becomes realigned to the proximal-distal axis of organ shape by mechanical forces and cell rearrangements mediated by Dachsous.
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