A Drosophila melanogaster homologue of the human DEAD-box gene DDX1

Gene

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 225-229

  Rafti, Fiorella ^a,b   Scarvelis, Dimitrios ^b   Lasko, Paul F ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND BIOPHYSICS ADRIANO BUZZATI TRAVERSO   (Italy)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cell transformation; Gene mapping; Helicases; HnRNP U; RNA binding proteins

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MAPPING; NONHUMAN; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0029988996     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(96)00034-0     Document Type: Article

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