Sex-lethal is a target of Bruno-mediated translational repression in promoting the differentiation of stem cell progeny during Drosophila oogenesis

Developmental Biology

Volumn 302, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 160-168

  Wang, Zhong ^a   Lin, Haifan ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bruno; Oogenesis; Sex lethal; Stem cell differentiation; Translational regulation

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BRUNO; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BLASTOCYST; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE; GENE TARGETING; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY CELL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; SEX LETHAL GENE; STEM CELL; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

EID: 33846253699     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2006.09.016     Document Type: Article

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