Heat shock protein 90: A capacitor or a mutator?

Journal of Biosciences

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 163-165

  Sawarkar, Ritwick ^a   Paro, Renato ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Hsp90; Transposons

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90; PIWI INTERACTING RNA;

DNA; FLY; MUTATION; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETIC VARIATION; HSP90 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MALE;

EID: 78651283645     PISSN: 02505991     EISSN: 02505991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12038-010-0018-2     Document Type: Article

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