Shaping a morphogen gradient for positional precision

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 697-707

  He, Feng ^a,b   Saunders, Timothy E ^c   Wen, Ying ^a   Cheung, David ^a   Jiao, Renjie ^b   Wolde, Pieter Rein Ten ^d   Howard, Martin ^c   Ma, Jun ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN S HOSPITAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^c JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICOID PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE PCAF; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HUNCHBACK PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; NEJIRE PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; ORTHODENTICLE PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; TIME;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; P300-CBP TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77955589342     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2010.04.073     Document Type: Article

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