Publications

I. Nisoli, S. Montrasio, D. Del Alamo M. Mlodzik and M. Fanto (2006). Atrophin modulates the Delta-dependent specification of R3/R4 photoreceptor cell fate by Notch. In preparation.

M.Fanto and H.McNeill (2004). Planar Polarity from flies to vertebrates. J. Cell Sci. 117;527-533.
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M.Fanto, L.Clayton, K.Hardiman, J.Meredith, B.Charoux, S.Kerridge and H.McNeill (2003). The atypical cadherin Fat controls planar polarity via physical interactions with Drosophila Atrophin, a transcriptional co-repressor. Development 130; 763-774.
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M.Fanto, U.Weber, D.I.Strutt and M.Mlodzik (2000). Nuclear signalling by Rac and Rho GTPase is required in the establishment of epithelial planar polarity in the Drosophila eye. Curr. Biol. 10; 979-988.
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C.Pazman, C.A.Mayes, M.Fanto, S.R.Haynes and M.Mlodzik (2000). Rasputin, the Drosophila homologue of the RasGAP SH3 binding protein, functions in Ras and Rho mediated signaling. Development 127; 1715-1725.
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M.Fanto and M.Mlodzik (1999). Asymmetric Notch activation specifies photoreceptors R3 and R4 and planar polarity in the Drosophila eye. Nature 397; 523-526.
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M.Fanto, C.A.Mayes and M.Mlodzik (1998). Linking cell-fate specification to planar polarity: determination of the R3/R4 photoreceptors is a prerequisite for the interpretation of the Frizzled mediated polarity signal. Mech.Dev. 74; 51-58.
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