The Drosophila splicing regulator sex-lethal directly inhibits translation of male-specific-lethal 2 mRNA

RNA

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 142-150

  Gebauer, Fátima ^a   Merendino, Livia ^a   Hentze, Matthias W ^a   Valcárcel, Juan ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dosage compensation; Gene expression; RNA protein interactions

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; INTRON; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSLATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; INTRONS; MALE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 0031894413     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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