Vasa promotes Drosophila germline stem cell differentiation by activating mei-P26 translation by directly interacting with a (U)-rich motif in its 3' UTR

Genes and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 2742-2752

  Liu, Niankun ^a   Han, Hong ^a   Lasko, Paul ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

DEAD box; Development; Oogenesis; Patterning; RNA binding protein

Indexed keywords

DEAD BOX PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR 5; INITIATION FACTOR 5B; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GERM CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA TRANSLATION; STEM CELL; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERM CELLS; RNA, MESSENGER; STEM CELLS; TRANSGENES; URACIL;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 72549111674     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1820709     Document Type: Article

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