De novo GMP synthesis is required for axon guidance in Drosophila

Genetics

Volumn 172, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1633-1642

  Long, Hong ^a   Cameron, Scott ^a   Yu, Li ^a   Rao, Yong ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE; GUANOSINE PHOSPHATE; INOSINATE DEHYDROGENASE; INOSINE PHOSPHATE; SYNTHETASE;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; FASCICULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GROWTH CONE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; NERVE GROWTH; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE RAS; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; VISUAL SYSTEM;

5'-GUANYLIC ACID; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AXONS; BODY PATTERNING; CARBON-NITROGEN LIGASES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPTIC LOBE, NONMAMMALIAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, INVERTEBRATE; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; RUBUS GLAUCUS;

EID: 33645227485     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.042911     Document Type: Article

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