Developmental Erk Signaling Illuminated

Paolo Armando Gagliardi; Olivier Pertz

doi:10.1016/j.devcel.2019.01.022

Developmental Erk Signaling Illuminated

Dev Cell. 2019 Feb 11;48(3):289-290. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2019.01.022.

Authors

Paolo Armando Gagliardi¹, Olivier Pertz²

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern, Baltzerstrasse 4, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.
² Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern, Baltzerstrasse 4, 3012 Bern, Switzerland. Electronic address: olivier.pertz@izb.unibe.ch.

PMID: 30753833
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2019.01.022

Abstract

How a small number of signaling pathways can be re-used in distinct embryonic contexts to control different fates remains unclear. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Johnson and Toettcher (2019) use optogenetic approaches to explore how different dynamic ERK signaling states control specific developmental fates in the Drosophila embryo.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Drosophila / genetics*
Embryo, Mammalian
Embryo, Nonmammalian
Optogenetics
Signal Transduction*