Lifetime of Bicoid at the time the embryo begins gastrulation

Value 15 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 right column top paragraphPubMed ID22004733
Method "The conceptual idea in [researchers'] strategy to measure Bcd lifetime is illustrated in Fig. 1 f."
Comments "By the time the embryo begins gastrulation, kdeg has increased and the lifetime of the protein has fallen to 15 min."
Entered by Uri M
ID 109196