RNAi-mediated suppression of the mitochondrial iron chaperone, frataxin, in Drosophila

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 3397-3405

  Anderson, Peter R ^a   Kirby, Kim ^a   Hilliker, Arthur J ^b   Phillips, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; FERRITIN; FRATAXIN; HEME; IRON; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUKARYOTE; FRIEDREICH ATAXIA; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HEREDITY; IRON METABOLISM; IRON OVERLOAD; LARVA; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LIFESPAN; MITOCHONDRION; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CATALASE; CYTOSOL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; IRON; IRON-BINDING PROTEINS; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; LARVA; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONS; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); PUPA; RNA INTERFERENCE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; ATAXIA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 27944495710     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddi367     Document Type: Article

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