Gap Peptides: A New Way to Control Embryonic Patterning?
From: Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA.
Cell
- Publish Date: Aug 2006
- ISSN: 0092-8674
- Volume: 126
- Issue: 3
- Pages: 448-9
- Medium: Print
- Language: English
- Citation (JAMA): Tour Ella, McGinnis William, et al. Gap Peptides: A New Way to Control Embryonic Patterning?. Cell Aug 2006;126:448-9
Abstract
Gap genes encode transcription factors involved in the patterning of the head-tail axis of insect embryos. In this issue of Cell, Savard et al. (2006) identify a beetle gap gene, mille-pattes, that encodes an unusual polycistronic transcript predicted to produce four conserved peptides. These results have interesting implications for the control of embryonic patterning in insects.
Mesh Headings (Keywords): Animals, Body Patterning, Embryo, Nonmammalian, Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental, Insects, Peptides, RNA, Trans-Activation (Genetics), Transcription Factors, ras GTPase-Activating Proteins
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