The bicoid protein is a positive regulator of hunchback transcription in the early Drosophila embryo
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 337 (6203) , 138-143
- https://doi.org/10.1038/337138a0
Abstract
A gradient in concentration of the protein product of the bicoid gene is a determinant of the anterior-posterior axis of Drosophila embryos. By binding upstream of the segmentation gene hunchback the bicoid protein controls its transcription, thereby translating maternal pattern-generating information into differential activation of zygotic gene expression.Keywords
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