A novel Drosophila nuclear protein serine/threonine kinase expressed in the germline during its establishment

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 71, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 49-63

  Oishi, Isao ^a   Sugiyama, Shin ^b   Otani, Hiroki ^c   Yamamura, Hirohei ^a   Nishida, Yasuyoshi ^b   Minami, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cellularization; Drosophila melanogaster; Germ line; Maternal gene; Nuclear protein kinase

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

CAENORHABDITIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 18844477320     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(97)00200-1     Document Type: Article

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