Notch and the Awesome Power of Genetics

作者:Greenwald Iva*
来源:GENETICS, 2012, 191(3): 655-669.
DOI:10.1534/genetics.112.141812

摘要

Notch is a receptor that mediates cell-cell interactions in animal development, and aberrations in Notch signal transduction can cause cancer and other human diseases. Here, I describe the major advances in the Notch field from the identification of the first mutant in Drosophila almost a century ago through the elucidation of the unusual mechanism of signal transduction a little over a decade ago. As an essay for the GENETICS Perspectives series, it is my personal and critical commentary as well as an historical account of discovery.

  • 出版日期2012-7