Stepwise formation of a SMAD activity gradient during dorsal-ventral patterning of the Drosophila embryo

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 5705-5716

  Sutherland, David J ^b   Li, Mingfa ^a   Liu, Xiao Qing ^c   Stefancsik, Raymund ^d   Raftery, Laurel A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^d INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

BMP; Dorsal ventral; Drosophila; Morphogen gradient; Patterning; SMAD

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; LIGAND; SMAD PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; BLASTODERM; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GASTRULATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BODY PATTERNING; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE DOSAGE; LIGANDS; MORPHOGENESIS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD4 PROTEIN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0346752185     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00801     Document Type: Review

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