Nanos and pumilio establish embryonic polarity in Drosophila by promoting posterior deadenylation of hunchback mRNA

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 3015-3023

  Wreden, Christopher ^a   Verrotti, Arturo C ^a   Schisa, Jennifer A ^a   Lieberfarb, Marshal E ^a   Strickland, Sidney ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Hunchback; Maternal mRNA; Nanos; Polyadenylation; Pumilio; Translational repression

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN;

ABDOMEN; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO POLARITY; GENE ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030757678     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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