Huckebein-mediated autoregulation of Glide/Gcm triggers glia specification

EMBO Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 244-254

  De Iaco, Rossana ^a   Soustelle, Laurent ^a   Kammerer, Martial ^a,b   Sorrentino, Sandro ^a,c   Jacques, Cécile ^a   Giangrande, Angela ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autoregulation; Drosophila melanogaster; Glia specification; Glide Gcm; Huckebein

Indexed keywords

HUCKEBEIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL POPULATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; EMBRYO; GCM GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GLIA CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HOMEOSTASIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROGLIA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UP-REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 30444441802     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600907     Document Type: Article

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