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      The origin of pattern and polarity in the Drosophila embryo.

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      Animals, Cell Nucleus, physiology, Cytoplasm, Drosophila, embryology, genetics, Embryo, Nonmammalian, Female, Gene Expression, Genes, Regulator, Larva, growth & development, Morphogenesis, Oocytes

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          Homeobox genes and axial patterning.

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            The bicoid protein determines position in the Drosophila embryo in a concentration-dependent manner.

            The bicoid (bcd) protein in a Drosophila embryo is derived from an anteriorly localized mRNA and comes to be distributed in an exponential concentration gradient along the anteroposterior axis. To determine whether the levels of bcd protein are directly related to certain cell fates, we manipulated the density and distribution of bcd mRNA by genetic means, measured the resultant alterations in height and shape of the bcd protein gradient, and correlated the gradient with the fate map of the respective embryos. Increases or decreases in bcd protein levels in a given region of the embryo cause a corresponding posterior or anterior shift of anterior anlagen in the embryo. The bcd protein thus has the properties of a morphogen that autonomously determines positions in the anterior half of the embryo.
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              I kappa B: a specific inhibitor of the NF-kappa B transcription factor.

              In cells that do not express immunoglobulin kappa light chain genes, the kappa enhancer binding protein NF-kappa B is found in cytosolic fractions and exhibits DNA binding activity only in the presence of a dissociating agent such as sodium deoxycholate. The dependence on deoxycholate is shown to result from association of NF-kappa B with a 60- to 70-kilodalton inhibitory protein (I kappa B). The fractionated inhibitor can inactivate NF-kappa B from various sources--including the nuclei of phorbol ester-treated cells--in a specific, saturable, and reversible manner. The cytoplasmic localization of the complex of NF-kappa B and I kappa B was supported by enucleation experiments. An active phorbol ester must therefore, presumably by activation of protein kinase C, cause dissociation of a cytoplasmic complex of NF-kappa B and I kappa B by modifying I kappa B. this releases active NF-kappa B which can translocate into the nucleus to activate target enhancers. The data show the existence of a phorbol ester-responsive regulatory protein that acts by controlling the DNA binding activity and subcellular localization of a transcription factor.
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