Relief of gene repression by Torso RTK signaling: Role of capicua in Drosophila terminal and dorsoventral patterning

Genes and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 224-231

  Jiménez, Gerardo ^a   Guichet, Antoine ^b   Ephrussi, Anne ^b   Casanova, Jordi ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capicua; Drosophila; Groucho; Repression; RTK signaling; Torso

Indexed keywords

MORPHOGEN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0343986271     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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