Three levels of regulation lead to protamine and Mst77F expression in Drosophila

Developmental Biology

Volumn 377, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 33-45

  Barckmann, Bridlin ^a   Chen, Xin ^b   Kaiser, Sophie ^a   Jayaramaiah Raja, Sunil ^a   Rathke, Christina ^a   Dottermusch Heidel, Christine ^a   Fuller, Margaret T ^b   Renkawitz Pohl, Renate ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mst77F; Protamine; Transcriptional regulation; Translational activation; Translational repression; TTAF target genes

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; INSECT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTAMINE; PROTAMINE B; PROTEIN MST77F; PROTEIN PROTB; TATA BINDING PROTEIN ASSOCIATED FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; GENE; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INSECT GENETICS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTB GENE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA TRANSLATION; SPERM; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

EID: 84876326602     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2013.02.018     Document Type: Article

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