Cap-Dependent Translational Inhibition Establishes Two Opposing Morphogen Gradients in Drosophila Embryos

Current Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 2035-2041

  Cho, Park F ^a   Gamberi, Chiara ^b   Cho Park, Yoon Andrew ^a   Cho Park, Ian B ^a   Lasko, Paul ^b   Sonenberg, Nahum ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

DEVBIO; RNA

Indexed keywords

4EHP PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; BRAT PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; CAUDAL PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HUNCHBACK PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; INITIATION FACTOR 4E; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DROSOPHILA; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BODY PATTERNING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-4E; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; RNA, MESSENGER, STORED; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 33749989519     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.08.093     Document Type: Article

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