Muscleblind, a gene required for photoreceptor differentiation in Drosophila, encodes novel nuclear Cys3His-type zinc-finger-containing proteins

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 4321-4331

  Begemann, Gerrit ^a,d   Paricio, Nuria ^a,b   Artero, Ruben ^b,e   Kiss, Istvan ^c   Pérez Alonso, Manuel ^b   Mlodzik, Marek ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Nuclear protein; Photoreceptor differentiation; Zinc finger domain

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MUTANT; DOMINANT GENE; DROSOPHILA; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; LETHAL GENE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN VARIANT; SUPPRESSOR GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; GENES, LETHAL; GENES, SUPPRESSOR; INSECT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-JUN; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, STEROID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VERTEBRATES; ZINC FINGERS;

INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030725752     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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