Drosophila RET contains an active tyrosine kinase and elicits neurotrophic activities in mammalian cells
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Initial biochemical and functional characterization of the dRET protein in cell culture systems indicate significant conservation between the biological effects elicited by the human and Drosophila RET kinases, and suggest functions for dRET in neuronal differentiation in the fly.About:
This article is published in FEBS Letters.The article was published on 2005-07-04 and is currently open access. It has received 32 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor & Tyrosine phosphorylation.read more
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Mammal-restricted elements predispose human RET to folding impairment by HSCR mutations
TL;DR: It is shown that two N-terminal cadherin-like domains, CLD1 and CLD2, from human RET adopt a clam-shell arrangement distinct from that of classical cadherins, indicating an unexpected structural diversity within higher and lower vertebrate RET CLD regions.
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The Ret receptor regulates sensory neuron dendrite growth and integrin mediated adhesion
TL;DR: In this article, the conserved Ret receptor was identified as an important regulator of dendrite development in Drosophila class IV dendritic arborization (C4da) neurons.
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Tracing the evolution and function of the Trk superfamily of receptor tyrosine kinases.
TL;DR: The evolution of the Trk superfamily is traced and possible conserved functional roles are discussed, including a unifying theme of target recognition by growing axons, proposing that an important driving force for the divergence of receptors is the ease of divergence of their ligands.
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Expression patterns of cadherin genes in Drosophila oogenesis
Jeremiah J. Zartman,Jitendra Kanodia,Nir Yakoby,Xenia Schafer,Colin Watson,Karin Schlichting,Christian Dahmann,Stanislav Y. Shvartsman +7 more
TL;DR: It is found that 9/17 of Drosophila cadherins are expressed in the follicular epithelium in dynamic patterns during oogenesis, and the multi-layered composite patterning of the cadherin genes is hypothesized to play a key role in the formation of the eggshell.
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Ret receptor tyrosine kinase sustains proliferation and tissue maturation in intestinal epithelia.
Daniel Perea,Jordi Guiu,Bruno Hudry,Chrysoula Konstantinidou,Alexandra Milona,Dafni Hadjieconomou,Thomas L. Carroll,Nina Hoyer,Dipa Natarajan,Jukka Kallijärvi,James A. Walker,Peter Soba,Nikhil Thapar,Alan J. Burns,Kim B. Jensen,Irene Miguel-Aliaga +15 more
TL;DR: Experiments in Drosophila indicate that Ret is expressed both by enteric neurons and adult intestinal epithelial progenitors, which require Ret to sustain their proliferation, and suggest an epithelial contribution to Ret loss‐of‐function disorders such as Hirschsprung disease.
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