A genetic screen for maternal-effect suppressors of decapentaplegic identifies the eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4A in drosophila

Genetics

Volumn 171, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1629-1641

  Li, Jinghong ^a,b   Li, Willis X ^b   Gelbart, William M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; DECAPENTAPLEGIC PROTEIN; HISTIDINE; INITIATION FACTOR 4A; MUTANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMNIOSEROSA CELL; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HETEROZYGOTE; INSECT CELL; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULL ALLELE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SU DPP GENE; SUPPRESSOR GENE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-4A; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA; INSECTA;

EID: 33645130944     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.038356     Document Type: Article

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