Targeted mutagenesis of the Sap47 gene of Drosophila: Flies lacking the synapse associated protein of 47 kDa are viable and fertile

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Funk, Natalja ^a   Becker, Sonja ^a,b   Huber, Saskia ^a,b   Brunner, Marion ^a   Buchner, Erich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA; PROTEIN SAP47; SIGNALING LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION MOLECULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MUTANT; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ENHANCER REGION; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; KNOCKOUT GENE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNAPSE; TRANSGENE; TRANSPOSON; WILD TYPE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EXONS; FERTILITY; FETAL VIABILITY; GENE DELETION; GENE TARGETING; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSGENES;

EID: 2642554816     PISSN: 14712202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-5-16     Document Type: Article

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