Egalitarian binds dynein light chain to establish oocyte polarity and maintain oocyte fate

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 427-435

  Navarro, Caryn ^a   Puthalakath, Hamsa ^b   Adams, Jerry M ^b   Strasser, Andreas ^b   Lehmann, Ruth ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Walter/Elisa Hall Inst of Med Res ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICAUDAL D PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; EGALITARIAN PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CELL POLARITY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL POLARITY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; DYNEIN ATPASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICROTUBULES; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; OVARY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 2342549289     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb1122     Document Type: Article

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