Drosophila photoreceptors express cysteine peptidase Tan

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 500, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 601-611

  Wagner, Stefanie ^a   Heseding, Christiane ^a   Szlachta, Kamila ^a   True, John R ^b   Prinz, Heino ^c   Hovemann, Bernhard T ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MP1 fur Molekulare Physiologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Immunocytochemistry; Isopenicillin N N acyltransferase; Lamina; Medulla; Vision

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; BINDING PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; CYSTYL AMINOPEPTIDASE; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; GLYCINE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HISTAMINE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN EBONY; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; PROTEIN TAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EYE COLOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INSECT GENETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVE ENDING; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PIGMENT DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RETINA NERVE CELL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TAN GENE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROGLIA; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 33846051470     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21138     Document Type: Article

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