A novel elF4G homolog, off-schedule, couples translational control to meiosis and differentiation in Drosophila spermatocytes

Development

Volumn 134, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 2851-2861

  Franklin Dumont, Tina M ^a   Chatterjee, Chandrima ^a   Wasserman, Steven A ^b   DiNardo, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Differentiation; Drosophila; elF4G; Meiosis; Spermatogenesis; Translation initiation

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN A; INITIATION FACTOR 4G; MESSENGER RNA; OFF SCHEDULE PROTEIN; PROTEIN OFS; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; EYE PROTEIN; OFF SCHEDULE PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; OFF-SCHEDULE PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; ROUGHEX PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GERM CELL; GROWTH REGULATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSLATION REGULATION; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SPERMATID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

EUKARYOTA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CYCLIN A; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-4G; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MEIOSIS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOCYTES; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 34548170688     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.003517     Document Type: Article

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