Facilitated transport of a Dpp/Scw heterodimer by Sog/Tsg leads to robust patterning of the Drosophila blastoderm embryo

Cell

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 873-886

  Shimmi, Osamu ^a   Umulis, David ^b   Othmer, Hans ^b   O'Connor, Michael B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTOR; LIGAND; MORPHOGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BLASTODERM; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; GENETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

EID: 17644394929     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2005.02.009     Document Type: Article

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