Dynamics of the Dorsal morphogen gradient

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

Volumn 106, Issue 51, 2009, Pages 21707-21712

  Kanodia, Jitendra S ^a   Rikhy, Richa ^b   Kim, Yoosik ^a   Lund, Viktor K ^c   DeLotto, Robert ^c   Lippincott Schwartz, Jennifer ^a   Shvartsman, Stanislav Y ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; Drosophila; Parameter estimation; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MORPHOGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BICOID GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GENE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL NUCLEUS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 76049127722     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0912395106     Document Type: Article

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