Peak levels of BMP in the Drosophila embryo control target genes by a feed-forward mechanism

Development

Volumn 132, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1637-1647

  Xu, Mu ^a   Kirov, Nikolai ^a   Rushlow, Christine ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BMP gradient; Feed forward; Race; Zen

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; SMAD PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIDERMIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; PEPTIDYL-DIPEPTIDASE A; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SMAD PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 17744393657     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01722     Document Type: Article

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