spen encodes an RNP motif protein that interacts with Hox pathways to repress the development of head-like sclerites in the Drosophila trunk

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 5373-5385

  Wiellette, Elizabeth L ^a   Harding, Katherine W ^a   Mace, Kimberly A ^a   Ronshaugen, Matthew R ^a   Wang, Fawn Y ^a   McGinnis, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antp; Drosophila melanogaster; Hox; Repressor; RNA binding; Split ends (spen)

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEAD; HOMEOBOX; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSPORT; THORAX;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTENNAPEDIA HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; BODY PATTERNING; CELL NUCLEUS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEAD; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; THORAX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0033398529     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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