Drosophila valois encodes a divergent WD protein that is required for Vasa localization and Oskar protein accumulation

Development

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 459-468

  Cavey, Matthieu ^a,b   Hijal, Sirine ^a   Zhang, Xiaolan ^a   Suter, Beat ^a,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Oskar; Posterior development; Valois; Vasa; WD protein

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA HELICASE;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; LETHAL MUTANT; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STOP CODON;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OOGENESIS; OVARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RNA HELICASES; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 14044268180     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01590     Document Type: Article

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