TSC1/2 tumour suppressor complex maintains Drosophila germline stem cells by preventing differentiation

Development

Volumn 137, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 2461-2469

  Sun, Pei ^a,b   Quan, Zhenghui ^b   Zhang, Bodi ^b   Wu, Tuoqi ^b   Xi, Rongwen ^b  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Drosophila ovary; Germline stem cell; Maintenance; Target of rapamycin; Tuberous sclerosis complex

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN TSC 1; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE; TUBERIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CROSSES, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GERM CELLS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SIROLIMUS; STEM CELLS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 77955762208     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.051466     Document Type: Article

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