Advantages and Limitations of Different p62-Based Assays for Estimating Autophagic Activity in Drosophila

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Pircs, Karolina ^a   Nagy, Peter ^a   Varga, Agnes ^a   Venkei, Zsolt ^a   Erdi, Balazs ^a   Hegedus, Krisztina ^a   Juhasz, Gabor ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN P62;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ATK GENE; AUTOPHAGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; FAT BODY; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARVA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN MALNUTRITION; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RIBOSOMAL GENE; RNA INTERFERENCE; S6K GENE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; AUTOPHAGY; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; LARVA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S6 KINASES; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 84865623676     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044214     Document Type: Article

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