Uracil-containing DNA in Drosophila: Stability, stage-specific accumulation, and developmental involvement

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Muha, Villo ^a   Horváth, András ^a   Békési, Angéla ^a   Pukáncsik, Mária ^a   Hodoscsek, Barbara ^a   Merényi, Gábor ^a   Róna, Gergely ^a   Batki, Júlia ^a   Kiss, István ^a   Jankovics, Ferenc ^a   Vilmos, Péter ^a   Erdélyi, Miklós ^a   Vértessy, Beáta G ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYURIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE PYROPHOSPHATASE; DNA; GENOMIC DNA; URACIL; DUTP PYROPHOSPHATASE; INORGANIC PYROPHOSPHATASE; URACIL DNA GLYCOSIDASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; DOWN REGULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EUKARYOTE; FEMALE; GENETIC STABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGO; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MALE; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PUPATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HELA CELL; LARVA; METABOLISM; RNA INTERFERENCE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENDOPTERYGOTA; EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; DNA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME, INSECT; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; LARVA; PYROPHOSPHATASES; RNA INTERFERENCE; URACIL; URACIL-DNA GLYCOSIDASE;

EID: 84864049112     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002738     Document Type: Article

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