Drosophila GAGA factor polyglutamine domains exhibit prion-like behavior

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Tariq, Muhammad ^a   Wegrzyn, Renee ^d   Anwar, Saima ^a   Bukau, Bernd ^d   Paro, Renato ^b,c  

^a LAHORE UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d Zentrum fur Molec Biol Heidelberg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Epigenetics; GAGA factor; Prion like

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GUANIDINE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 104; POLYGLUTAMINE; PRION PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAGA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRION; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REPORTER GENE; YEAST CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PHENOTYPE; PRIONS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84878369223     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-374     Document Type: Article

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