• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Cell height: Tao rising
  • Contributor: Cai, Liang; Mostov, Keith E.
  • Published: Rockefeller University Press, 2012
  • Published in: Journal of Cell Biology, 199 (2012) 7, Seite 1023-1024
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201211015
  • ISSN: 1540-8140; 0021-9525
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  • Description: During oogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster, the cells in the follicular epithelium of the ovary undergo a transition from a cuboidal to a squamous shape. In this issue, Gomez et al. (2012. J. Cell Biol. http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201207150) show that the kinase Tao promotes the endocytosis of the cell adhesion molecule Fasciclin 2 from the lateral surface of the cell and is critical for the cuboidal to squamous cell shape transition. Their results indicate that Tao is rising as a regulator of cell height.
  • Access State: Open Access