Functional study of mammalian Neph proteins in Drosophila melanogaster

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Helmstädter, Martin ^a,b   Lüthy, Kevin ^b   Gödel, Markus ^a   Simons, Matias ^a,b   Ashish, ^c   Nihalani, Deepak ^d   Rensing, Stefan A ^b   Fischbach, Karl Friedrich ^b   Huber, Tobias B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRREC RST PROTEIN; KIRRE PROTEIN; NEPHRIN; PROTEIN NEPH 1; PROTEIN NEPH 2; PROTEIN NEPH 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EYE; FUNCTIONAL PROTEOMICS; GARLAND CELL NEPHROCYTE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC MODEL; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; KIN1 MOTIF; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR MODEL; NEPHRON; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; CELL FUSION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; LARVA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MUSCLE PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; TRANSGENES;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84863688902     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040300     Document Type: Article

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