Inscuteable and staufen mediate asymmetric localization and segregation of prospero RNA during drosophila neuroblast cell divisions

Cell

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 437-447

  Li, Peng ^a   Yang, Xiaohang ^a   Wasser, Martin ^a   Cai, Yu ^a   Chiat, William ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RNA BINDING; STEM CELL;

ANIMALIA; PROSPERO;

EID: 0030745426     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80504-8     Document Type: Article

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