Cleavage of the Drosophila screw prodomain is critical for a dynamic BMP morphogen gradient in embryogenesis

Developmental Biology

Volumn 389, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 149-159

  Künnapuu, Jaana ^a   Tauscher, Petra M ^a   Tiusanen, Nina ^a   Nguyen, Minh ^b   Löytynoja, Ari ^a   Arora, Kavita ^b   Shimmi, Osamu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone morphogenetic protein; Decapentaplegic (dpp); Dorsal ventral patterning; Post translational regulation; Proprotein convertase

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; DECAPENTAPLEGIC PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN SCW; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; IN VIVO STUDY; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; DECAPENTAPLEGIC (DPP); DORSAL-VENTRAL PATTERNING; POST-TRANSLATIONAL REGULATION; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLASTODERM; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTANT PROTEINS; MUTATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 84897538510     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2014.02.007     Document Type: Article

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