Regulated nuclear import of Rel proteins in the Drosophila immune response

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6671, 1998, Pages 93-97

  Wu, Louisa P ^a   Anderson, Kathryn V ^a  

^a Weill Cornell Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FAT BODY; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, INSECT; GENES, REPORTER; IMMUNITY; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; CACTACEAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032485392     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/32195     Document Type: Article

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