A Drosophila behavioral mutant, down and out (dao), is defective in an essential regulator of Erg potassium channels

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 5617-5621

  Fergestad, Tim ^a   Sale, Harinath ^a   Bostwick, Bret ^a   Schaffer, Ashleigh ^a   Ho, Lingling ^a   Robertson, Gail A ^a   Ganetzky, Barry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

hERG potassium channels; Membrane excitability; Neurogenetics; Seizure

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL HERG; PROTEIN DAO; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEIZURE; TEMPERATURE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ETHER-A-GO-GO POTASSIUM CHANNELS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, INSECT; MUTATION; OOCYTES; PHENOTYPE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 77950443677     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1001494107     Document Type: Article

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