The role of Tudor domains in germline development and polar granule architecture

Development

Volumn 133, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 4053-4062

  Arkov, Alexey L ^a   Wang, Ju Yu S ^a   Ramos, Andres ^b   Lehmann, Ruth ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Germline development; Methylosome; Nuage; Polar granule; PRMT5; Tudor domain

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; TUDOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL GRANULE; CYTOARCHITECTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ABDOMEN; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; OOCYTES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33751027628     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.02572     Document Type: Article

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