Efficient translation and phosphorylation of oskar require oskar protein and the RNA helicase Vasa

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 62, Issue , 1997, Pages 13-17

  Markussen, F H ^a   Breitwieser, W ^a,b   Ephrussi, A ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA HELICASE; ALPHA TUBULIN; OSKAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA HELICASE VASA; STAU PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA TRANSLATION; START CODON;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031462473     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1997.062.01.004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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