Zygotically transcribed genes Biochemical pathways

Maternally transcribed genes

• Acting immediately after fertilization
  
  • Cellularization (these genes are transcribed maternally)
  • Dorsal-ventral patterning and Dpp signaling
  • Gap genes
  • Pair rule genes
  • Segment polarity genes
  • Hox (homeobox) cluster
  • Unclassified genes involved in regulation of pair rule genes
  
  
• Biochemical systems
  
  • Axon guidance
  • Antennapedia and Bithorax complexes - determination of segmental identity
  • Apoptosis - Programmed cell death
  • cAMP cascade and other genes involved in behavior, learning, and memory
  • Calcium binding and calcium dependent enzymes and proteins
  • Cell cycle
  • Channels
  • Chromatin structure
  • Cytoskeleton
  • Dpp pathway
  • Dorsal-ventral polarity
  • DNA replication
  • Egf receptor signaling
  • Enhancer of Split complex
  • Fgf receptor signaling
  • Golgi apparatus
  • Heat shock factor and heat shock proteins
  • Hedgehog pathway
  • Hippo/Warts tumor suppressor pathway
  • Hormones and neuropeptides
  • Immune response
  • Insulin receptor signaling pathway - Growth response
  • JAK/STAT signaling pathway
  • JNK pathway
  • Junctional proteins
  • Molting regulation
  • Myc-Max-Mad/Mnt network
  • Notch pathway - neurogenic genes
  • Odorant-binding proteins
  • Odorant receptors, olfactory receptor neurons, and olfactory learning
  • Oncogenes and Tumor Suppressors
  • Polycomb and Trithorax group proteins
  • Proneural proteins
  • Protein degradation
  • Protein targeting, asymmetric cell division and apical/basal polarity
  • Ras pathway
  • RNAi and posttranscriptional gene silencing
  • RNA polymerase and general transcription factors
  • Segment polarity
  • Sex determination
  • Splicing factors for processing pre-messenger RNA
  • Taste receptors
  • Tissue polarity
  • TOR pathway
  • Vesicular formation, sorting, fusion and transport
  • Visual signal transduction and photoperiod response
  • Wingless pathway

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