Lifetime of Bicoid at the onset of cycle 14

Value 50 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 "At the onset of cycle 14, kdeg is 0.020 min^-1, corresponding to a lifetime of 50 min."
Entered by Uri M
ID 109195