patufet, the gene encoding the Drosophila melanogaster homologue of selenophosphate synthetase, is involved in imaginal disc morphogenesis

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 257, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 113-123

  Alsina, B ^a   Serras, F ^a   Baguna J ^a   Corominas, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Imaginal discs; Morphogenesis; patufet; Selenophosphate synthetase

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; SELENOPHOSPHATE SYNTHETASE; SELENOPROTEIN; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SCREENING; IMAGINAL DISC; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LETHAL MUTANT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BRAIN; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; GENES, LETHAL; HUMANS; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES; PUPA; RNA, MESSENGER; SELENIUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WING;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031951063     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050630     Document Type: Article

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