The translation initiation factor eif4e regulates the Sex-Specific expression of the master switch gene Sxl in Drosophila melanogaster

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Graham, Patricia L ^a   Yanowitz, Judith L ^b,c   Penn, Jill K M ^a   Deshpande, Girish ^a   Schedl, Paul ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR 4E; INSECT PROTEIN; MALE SPECIFIC LETHAL 2 PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; SEX LETHAL PROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; DSX PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; MSL 2 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; MSL-2 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SXL PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALLELE; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; LETHALITY; MALE; MALE SPECIFIC LETHAL 2 GENE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULATOR GENE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX LETHAL GENE; TRANSGENE; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; ANIMAL; CELL NUCLEUS; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA SPLICING;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-4E; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE ORDER; MALE; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEX FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 79960954827     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002185     Document Type: Article

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