Alternative splicing of lola generates 19 transcription factors controlling axon guidance in Drosophila

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 917-924

  Goeke, Scott ^a   Greene, Elizabeth A ^a   Grant, Paul K ^a   Gates, Michael A ^a   Crowner, Daniel ^a   Aigaki, Toshiro ^b,c   Giniger, Edward ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LOLA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA BINDING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROBE; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AXONS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0041358544     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1105     Document Type: Article

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