A GFP-tagged muscleblind C protein isoform reporter construct

Fly

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 333-337

  Pascual, Maya ^a,b   Monferrer, Lidon ^a,c   Costa, Juan M Fernandez ^a   Bargiela, Ariadna ^a   Artero, Ruben ^a   Llamusi, Beatriz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN PRÍNCIPE FELIPE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Fusion protein; GFP reporter construct; Live imaging; Muscleblind; Mutant rescue; Myotonic dystrophy; Protein isoform; Subcellular distribution

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MUSCLEBLIND PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CELL NUCLEUS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MUSCLES; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 77957742955     PISSN: 19336934     EISSN: 19336942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/fly.4.4.13259     Document Type: Article

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