Conversion of an extracellular Dpp/BMP morphogen gradient into an inverse transcriptional gradient

Cell

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 221-233

  Müller, Bruno ^a   Hartmann, Britta ^b   Pyrowolakis, George ^b   Affolter, Markus ^a   Basler, Konrad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHOGEN; PROTEIN; SMAD PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0242417167     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(03)00241-1     Document Type: Article

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