Expression pattern of Drosophila translin and behavioral analyses of the mutant

European Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 173-186

  Suseendranathan, Kumud ^a   Sengupta, Kundan ^a   Rikhy, Richa ^a   D'Souza, Jacinta S ^a   Kokkanti, Mallikarjun ^a   Kulkarni, Meeta G ^a   Kamdar, Radhika ^a   Changede, Rishita ^a   Sinha, Raunak ^a   Subramanian, Lakshmi ^a   Singh, Kamini ^a   Rodrigues, Veronica ^a   Rao, Basuthkar J ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Locomotor defect; Mutant; Neuronal expression; TB RBP; Translin

Indexed keywords

DIMER; DISULFIDE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MONOMER; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSLIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LARVA; METAPHASE; MUTANT; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPERMATOCYTE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 33846814966     PISSN: 01719335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcb.2006.11.005     Document Type: Article

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