A positive role for short gastrulation in modulating BMP signaling during dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila embryo

Development

Volumn 128, Issue 19, 2001, Pages 3831-3841

  Decotto, E ^a   Ferguson, E L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

BMP; Chordin; Decapentaplegic; Dorsoventral patterning; Drosophila melanogaster; Screw; Short gastrulation

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; CHORDIN; DECAPENTAPLEGIC PROTEIN; LIGAND; MAD PROTEIN; MEDEA PROTEIN; SCREW PROTEIN; SHORT GASTRULATION PROTEIN; SMAD PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMNIOSEROSA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TYPE; CHORDATA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYONAL TISSUE; GASTRULATION; GENETIC CODE; INFORMATION; LETHALITY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; GASTRULA; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLYCOPROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MUTATION; PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD4 PROTEIN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; CHORDATA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0034772533     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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