EcR isoforms in Drosophila: Testing tissue-specific requirements by targeted blockade and rescue

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 271-284

  Cherbas, Lucy ^a   Hu, Xiao ^a,c   Zhimulev, Igor ^b   Belyaeva, Elena ^b   Cherbas, Peter ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^c Pharmacia   (United States)

Author keywords

AF1; Dominant negative; Ecdysone; EcR; Isoforms; Nuclear receptors

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; ECDYSONE; ECDYSONE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EPIDERMIS CELL; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FAT BODY; FORELIMB; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; LARVA; MUTANT; NEUROSECRETORY CELL; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; ORGANOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SALIVARY GLAND; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA; EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0037262925     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00205     Document Type: Review

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