Translational control of dosage compensation in Drosophila by Sex-lethal: Cooperative silencing via the 5' and 3' UTRs of msl-2 mRNA is independent of the poly(A) tail

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 6146-6154

  Gebauer, Fátima ^a   Corona, Davide F V ^a   Preiss, Thomas ^a   Becker, Peter B ^a,b   Hentze, Matthias W ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drosophila; In vitro translation; msl 2; Poly(A) tail; Sex lethal

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; POLYADENYLATED RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; GENE DOSAGE; LETHAL GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0033229825     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.21.6146     Document Type: Article

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