Dual sex-specific functions of Drosophila upstream of N-ras in the control of X chromosome dosage compensation

Development

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 689-698

  Patalano, Solenn ^a   Mihailovich, Marija ^a   Belacortu, Yaiza ^b   Paricio, Nuria ^b   Gebauer, Fátima ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

DCC; Dosage compensation; MSL; RoX1 2; Translation; UNR

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; N RAS PROTEIN; PROTEIN ROX1; PROTEIN ROX2; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN VIVO STUDY; INSECT GENETICS; LETHALITY; MALE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES; X CHROMOSOME;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 64549117893     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.027656     Document Type: Article

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