Sex-lethal enables germline stem cell differentiation by down-regulating Nanos protein levels during Drosophila oogenesis

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

Volumn 109, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 9465-9470

  Chau, Johnnie ^a   Kulnane, LauraShapiro ^a   Salz, Helen K ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN NANOS; PROTEIN SEX LETHAL; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL RENEWAL; DOWN REGULATION; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; GENDER IDENTITY; GENE DOSAGE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SWITCHING; GENE TARGETING; GERM LINE; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEM CELL; TUMOR VOLUME;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; DOWN-REGULATION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENES, LETHAL; GERM CELLS; OOGENESIS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84862206419     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1120473109     Document Type: Article

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