Mutations in the predicted aspartyl tRNA synthetase of Drosophila are lethal and function as dosage-sensitive maternal modifiers of the sex determination gene Sex-lethal

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 261, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 142-151

  Stitzinger, S M ^a   Pellicena Palle, A ^a,c   Albrecht, E B ^a,d   Gajewski, K M ^b,e   Beckingham, K M ^b   Salz, H K ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspartyl tRNA synthetase; Drosophila melanogaster; Genetic modifiers; Sex lethal; Tryptophanyl tRNA synthetase

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CELL VIABILITY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE DOSAGE; LETHAL MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SEX DETERMINATION;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; ANIMALS; ASPARTATE-TRNA LIGASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; GENES, LETHAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U1 SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA SPLICING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032982207     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050951     Document Type: Article

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