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Publication : Neuralized is essential for a subset of Notch pathway-dependent cell fate decisions during Drosophila eye development.

First Author  Lai E C Year  2001
Journal  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Volume  98
Pages  5637-42 PubMed ID  11344304
Abstract Text  Neuralized (neur) is a neurogenic mutant of Drosophila in which many signaling events mediated by the Notch (N) receptor are disrupted. Here, we analyze the role of neur during eye development. Neur is required in a cell-autonomous fashion to restrict R8 and other photoreceptor fates and is involved in lateral inhibition of interommatidial bristles but is not required for induction of the cone cell fate. The latter contrasts with the absolute requirement for Suppressor of Hairless and the Enhancer of split-Complex for cone cell induction. Using gain-of-function experiments, we further demonstrate that ectopic wild-type and truncated Neur proteins can interfere with multiple N-controlled aspects of eye development, including both neur-dependent and neur-independent processes. Doi  10.1073/pnas.101135498
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