Drosophila nemo is an essential gene involved in the regulation of programmed cell death

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 9-20

  Mirkovic, Ivana ^a   Charish, Kristi ^a   Gorski, Sharon M ^b   McKnight, Kristen ^a   Verheyen, Esther M ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Drosophila; dTak1; Jun N terminal kinase; Nemo; Nemo like kinase; p35; Reaper

Indexed keywords

I KAPPA B KINASE GAMMA; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 4; NEMO PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEATH; ESSENTIAL GENE; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC DATABASE; GERM CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; CROSS BREEDING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPIDERMIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; NICK END LABELING; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME; TRANSGENE;

DROSOPHILA NEMO;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL DEATH; CROSSES, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EPIDERMIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HETEROZYGOTE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; JNK MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MAP KINASE KINASE 4; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0036830448     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(02)00289-7     Document Type: Article

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