Stage debut for the elusive Drosophila insulin-like growth factor binding protein.
Institute of Healthy Ageing, GEE, University College London, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT, UK. l.partridge@ucl.ac.uk.
ABSTRACT: Insulin-like growth factor (IGF) binding proteins provide a layer of complexity to the insulin/IGF signaling system in mammals, but only now, in a recent study in Journal of Biology, has one such protein been functionally characterized in Drosophila.
PMID: 18620552 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]