A ventrally localized protease in the Drosophila egg controls embryo dorsoventral polarity

Current Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1013-1018

  Cho, Yong Suk ^a   Stevens, Leslie M ^a   Sieverman, Kathryn J ^a   Nguyen, Jesse ^a,b   Stein, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; EASTER PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; GASTRULATION DEFECTIVE PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; SERINE PROTEINASE; SNAKE PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; SULFOTRANSFERASE; TL PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; OOCYTE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; OVUM; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SULFOTRANSFERASES; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

EID: 84861849357     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.03.065     Document Type: Article

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