Identification of Synaptic Targets of Drosophila Pumilio

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Chen, Gengxin ^a   Li, Wanhe ^a,b   Zhang, Qing Shuo ^a   Regulski, Michael ^a   Sinha, Nishi ^a   Barditch, Jody ^a   Tully, Tim ^a   Krainer, Adrian R ^a   Zhang, Michael Q ^a   Dubnau, Josh ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSAYS; BIOSYNTHESIS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROTEINS;

DOWN-REGULATION; DROSOPHILLA; EMBRYONIC PATTERNING; GERMLINE; HOMEOSTATIC CONTROL; IN-VIVO; INFORMATICS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY FORMATION; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTIONS;

NEURONS;

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; PUMILIO PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NERVE CELL; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYNAPSE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONS; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SYNAPSES;

EID: 44449177892     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000026     Document Type: Article

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