DDP1, a single-stranded nucleic acid-binding protein of Drosophila, associates with pericentric heterochromatin and is functionally homologous to the yeast Scp160p, which is involved in the control of cell ploidy

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 3820-3833

  Cortés, Alfred ^a   Huertas, Dori ^a   Fanti, Laura ^b,c   Pimpinelli, Sergio ^c   Marsellach, Francesc X ^a   Piña, Benjamí ^a   Azorín, Fernando ^a  

^a DEPT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Centromere; Drosophila dodeca satellite; Heterochromatin; ssDNA; Vigilins

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; SATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HETEROCHROMATIN; INTERPHASE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PLOIDY; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, SATELLITE; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HETEROCHROMATIN; INSECT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLOIDIES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; YEASTS;

ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0033169060     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.13.3820     Document Type: Article

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