Drosophila embryos lacking N-myristoyltransferase have multiple developmental defects

Experimental Cell Research

Volumn 262, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 134-144

  Ntwasa, Monde ^b   Aapies, Sonti ^b   Schiffmann, David A ^a   Gay, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Actin cytoskeleton; Embryonic development; Lipid modification; Myristic acid

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; MYRISTIC ACID; PHALLOIDIN; PROTEIN DSRC42A; PROTEIN DSRC64B; PROTEIN N MYRISTOYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; GENE MUTATION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0035862198     PISSN: 00144827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/excr.2000.5086     Document Type: Article

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