RNAi screening in Drosophila cells identifies new modifiers of mutant huntingtin aggregation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Doumanis, Joanna ^a   Wada, Koji ^a   Kino, Yoshihiro ^a   Moore, Adrian W ^a   Nukina, Nobuyuki ^a  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; HUNTINGTIN; HUNTINGTIN PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; POLYGLUTAMINE;

AGED; AMPLICON; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; IMAGO; IN VIVO STUDY; INSECT CELL; INSECT GENOME; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR PROBE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EXON; GENETICS; GENOME; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; TRANSGENE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; GENOME; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MUTATION; PEPTIDES; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; TRANSGENES;

EID: 70349675573     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007275     Document Type: Article

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