A conserved 90 nucleotide element mediates translational repression of nanos RNA

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 2791-2800

  Gavis, Elizabeth R ^b   Lunsford, Lynn ^a   Bergsten, Sherri Evans ^b   Lehmann, Ruth ^a,c  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

3'UTR; Drosophila; nanos; Pattern formation; Translational control element; Translational regulation

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA HELICASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; INSECT HORMONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; RNA HELICASES; RNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSGENES;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0029793587     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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