The time to measure positional information: Maternal Hunchback is required for the synchrony of the Bicoid transcriptional response at the onset of zygotic transcription

Development

Volumn 137, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 2795-2804

  Porcher, Aude ^a,b   Abu Arish, Asmahan ^c,d   Huart, Sébastien ^a,b   Roelens, Baptiste ^a,b   Fradin, Cécile ^c   Dostatni, Nathalie ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Morphogenetic gradients; Precision of patterning; Transcription

Indexed keywords

BICOID PROTEIN; MORPHOGEN; PROTEIN HUNCHBACK; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; INTERPHASE; MITOSIS; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR DIVISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZYGOTE;

EID: 77955764031     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.051300     Document Type: Article

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