Regulation of Easter activity is required for shaping the Dorsal gradient in the Drosophila embryo

Development

Volumn 129, Issue 24, 2002, Pages 5635-5645

  Chang, Andy J ^a   Morisato, Donald ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsal; Dorsoventral polarity; Drosophila; Easter; Serine protease; Sp tzle

Indexed keywords

LIGAND; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; SERINE PROTEINASE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYO POLARITY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC REGULATION; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TARGETING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WILD TYPE; ZYGOTE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; BODY PATTERNING; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, DOMINANT; GENOTYPE; INSECT PROTEINS; LIGANDS; MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TIME FACTORS; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0036922711     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00161     Document Type: Article

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