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Hox proteins: sculpting body parts by activating localized cell death
1Laboratory for Development and Evolution, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, CB2 3EJ, Cambridge, UK. cra21@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Current Biology : CB
|November 26, 2002
Abstract:
Hox proteins shape animal structures by eliciting different developmental programs along the anteroposterior body axis. A recent study reveals that the Drosophila Hox protein Deformed directly activates the cell-death-promoting gene reaper to maintain the boundaries between distinct head segments.