Identification of the Drosophila melanogaster homolog of the human spastin gene

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 213, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 412-415

  Kammermeier, Lars ^a   Spring, Jürg ^a   Stierwald, Michael ^a   Burgunder, Jean Marc ^b   Reichert, Heinrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

AAA domain; Drosophila melanogaster; Embryonic CNS; Spastin

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; GENE PRODUCT; SPASTIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VERTEBRATE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0042328091     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-003-0340-x     Document Type: Article

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