The Drosophila RGS protein loco is required for dorsal/ventral axis formation of the egg and embryo, and nurse cell dumping

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 137-150

  Pathirana, Stephen ^a   Zhao, Debiao ^b   Bownes, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor signalling; Follicle cells; G protein signalling; Oogenesis; Polarity

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN LOCO; PROTEIN LOCO C3; RGS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CYTOPLASM; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; OOGENESIS; OVUM; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN KINASES; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE PEPTIDE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RGS PROTEINS; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0035197185     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(01)00557-3     Document Type: Article

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