Production of a DPP activity gradient in the early drosophila embryo through the opposing actions of the SOG and TLD proteins

Cell

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 417-426

  Marqués, Guillermo ^a,c   Musacchio, Michéle ^a   Shimell, Mary Jane ^a   Wünnenberg Stapleton, Katrin ^a   Cho, Ken W Y ^a   O'Connor, Michael B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; METALLOPROTEINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030671306     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80425-0     Document Type: Article

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