The Drosophila fl(2)d gene, required for female-specific splicing of Sxl and tra pre-mRNAs, encodes a novel nuclear protein with a HQ-rich domain

Genetics

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 129-139

  Penalva, Luiz O F ^a   Ruiz, M Fernanda ^b   Ortega, Angeles ^a   Granadino, Begoña ^b   Vicente, Luis ^b   Segarra, Carmen ^c   Valcárcel, Juán ^a   Sánchez, Lucas ^b  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; GLUTAMINE; HISTIDINE; HUMANS; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0034056639     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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