Multiple isoforms of the Drosophila Spätzle protein are encoded by alternatively spliced maternal mRNAs in the precellular blastoderm embryo

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 264, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 643-652

  DeLotto, Y ^b   Smith, C ^c   DeLotto, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b FINSEN LABORATORY   (Denmark)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsal ventral; Drosophila embryogenesis; Pattern formation; Sp tzle

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; PROTEINASE; SPATZLE PROTEIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RECEPTOR BINDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACULOVIRIDAE; BLASTODERM; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTHERS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

INSECTA;

EID: 0035140845     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380000350     Document Type: Article

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