"Smart" genes use many cues to set cell fate
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Developmental biologist Eric Davidson and Chiou-Hwa Yuh present evidence suggesting that a gene in the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus contains mechanisms that enable it to pick up various chemical signals which determine the fate of the cell in which the gene resides.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1996
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Defining the first steps on the path toward cell specialization
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A research teams led by molecular geneticist Patrick Straigier and developmental biologist Richard Losick have identified a single protein, SpoIIE, which enables a bacterium to produce progeny that are genetically identical, yet which develop different functions.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1995
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Protein motors may drive cells on route to specialization
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Research evidence suggests that cellular specialization relies on motor proteins that carry a unknown regulatory protein from mother to daughter cell that works with a protein called Ash 1p to prevent mating-type switching in the daughter cell.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1996
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