Lifetime of Bicoid in early cycle 14

Value 36 min
Organism Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster
Reference Drocco JA, Grimm O, Tank DW, Wieschaus E. Measurement and perturbation of morphogen lifetime: effects on gradient shape. Biophys J. 2011 Oct 19 101(8):1807-15. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2011.07.025. p.1812 left column bottom paragraphPubMed ID22004733
Method "The conceptual idea in [researchers'] strategy to measure Bcd lifetime is illustrated in Fig. 1 f."
Comments "The degradation rate, kdeg, at this developmental time point, indicated by the slope, is 0.028min^-1, which corresponds to a Bcd lifetime, tBcd, of 36 min."
Entered by Uri M
ID 109194