Virus-like particle formation in Drosophila melanogaster germ cells suggests a complex translational regulation of the retrotransposon cycle and new mechanisms inhibiting transposition

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 88-95

  Rachidi, M ^a,b   Lopes, C ^a,c   Benichou, J C ^b   Hellio, R ^b   Maisonhaute, C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE DE LILLE   (France)

^d France and University of Paris Sud   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAG PROTEIN; POL PROTEIN; RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DNA TRANSPOSITION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENITAL SYSTEM; GERM CELL; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RETROPOSON; RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS; TRANSLATION REGULATION; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS PARTICLE;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; FEMALE; GENE PRODUCTS, ENV; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; OVARY; RETROELEMENTS; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TESTIS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 23844524437     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000085675     Document Type: Article

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