...: This Review summarises the transcription factor and epigenetic control of stomatal development and patterning, highlighting similarities between plant and animal developmental mechanisms. Asymmetric division bHLH proteins Epigenetic regulation of differentiation Lineage-specific stem cells Peptide...

... of Biologists Ltd 2013 bHLH proteins Drosophila Fork head (Fkh) FoxA Sage Salivary gland Senseless (Sens) Among the major questions in developmental biology are how cells are specified to form distinct cell types and how tissue-specific programs of gene expression...

... of Cell Biology, 725 N. Wolfe St., Baltimore, MD 21205, USA † Author for correspondence ([email protected]) Competing interests statement The authors declare no competing financial interests. 6 7 2010 © 2010. 2010 bHLH proteins Cell migration Mesoderm...

...Hamed Jafar-Nejad; An-Chi Tien; Melih Acar; Hugo J. Bellen The basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) proneural proteins Achaete and Scute cooperate with the class I bHLH protein Daughterless to specify the precursors of most sensory bristles in Drosophila . However, the mechanosensory bristles...

... encode a Daughterless-like and an Achaete-scute-like bHLH protein, respectively, are required to kill the NSM sister cells. A heterodimer composed of HLH-2 and HLH-3, HLH-2/HLH-3, binds to Snail-binding sites/E-boxes in a cis-regulatory region of the egl-1 locus in vitro that is required for the death...

... transduction Drosophila daughterless Morphogenetic furrow bHLH proteins The Drosophila eye has proved to be an excellent tissue for the analysis of genetic circuits during development. It consists of repeated units called ommatidia, which contain photoreceptor neurons, cone cells (which...

... of Biologists 1997 neurogenesis neural progenitors olfactory epithelium olfactory placodes olfactory receptor neurons bHLH proteins Mash1 NeuroD achaete-scute homolog atonal homolog mouse The process of neurogenesis in the nervous system of vertebrates produces a large variety...