Oskar protein interaction with vasa represents an essential step in polar granule assembly

Genes and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 17, 1996, Pages 2179-2188

  Breitwieser, Wolfgang ^a   Markussen, Finn Hugo ^a   Horstmann, Heinz ^a   Ephrussi, Anne ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drosophila; oogenesis; Oskar; pole plasm; Staufen; Vasa

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PLASMA PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL GRANULE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA TRANSLATION; YEAST;

EID: 0029810188     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.17.2179     Document Type: Article

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