Similarities of Drosophila rab GTPases based on expression profiling: Completion and analysis of the rab-Gal4 kit

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Jin, Eugene Jennifer ^a   Chan, Chih Chiang ^a   Agi, Egemen ^a   Cherry, Smita ^a   Hanacik, Elizabeth ^a,b   Buszczak, Michael ^b   Hiesinger, P Robin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; RAB PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4;

ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; RAB GENE; RAB30 GENE; RAB40 GENE; RABX5 GENE; RABX6 GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; NEURONS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RAB GTP-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 84864207088     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040912     Document Type: Article

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