Posterior localization of dynein and dorsal-ventral axis formation depend on kinesin in Drosophila oocytes

Current Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 17, 2002, Pages 1541-1545

  Brendza, Robert P ^a,b   Serbus, Laura R ^a   Saxton, William M ^a   Duffy, Joseph B ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICOID PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; EGG PROTEIN; GURKEN PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; KINESIN; MESSENGER RNA; MOLECULAR MOTOR; OSKAR PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL POLARITY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; MORPHOGENESIS; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL POLARITY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; DYNEIN ATPASE; EGG PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; KINESIN; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROTUBULES; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MORPHOGENESIS; OOCYTES; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0037015299     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(02)01108-9     Document Type: Article

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