Antagonistic action of Bicoid and the repressor Capicua determines the spatial limits of Drosophila head gene expression domains

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 51, 2009, Pages 21695-21700

  Löhr, Ulrike ^a   Chung, Ho Ryun ^b   Beller, Mathias ^a   Jäckle, Herbert ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bicoid antagonist; Drosophila development; Gene regulation; Head development; Morphogen gradient

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BICOID GENE; BINDING SITE; CAPICUA GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TARGETING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HMGB PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 76049091247     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0910225106     Document Type: Article

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