Self-enhanced ligand degradation underlies robustness of morphogen gradients

Developmental Cell

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 635-646

  Eldar, Avigdor ^a   Rosin, Dalia ^a   Shilo, Ben Zion ^a   Barkai, Naama ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR; LIGAND; MORPHOGEN; RECEPTOR; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT1 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION KINETICS; FORELIMB; GENE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LIGANDS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; ERINACEIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0141989894     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1534-5807(03)00292-2     Document Type: Article

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