UNC79 and UNC80, putative auxiliary subunits of the NARROW ABDOMEN ion channel, are indispensable for robust circadian locomotor rhythms in Drosophila

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Lear, Bridget C ^a   Darrah, Eric J ^a   Aldrich, Benjamin T ^a   Gebre, Senetibeb ^a   Scott, Robert L ^b   Nash, Howard A ^b   Allada, Ravi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; PROTEIN NARROW ABDOMEN; PROTEIN UNC79; PROTEIN UNC80; SODIUM CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GENE PRODUCT; GENETIC DISORDER; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR CONTROL; MUTANT; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PACEMAKER NERVE CELL; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UNC79 GENE; UNC80 GENE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; ION CHANNELS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MUTATION; NEURONS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

EID: 84892374922     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078147     Document Type: Article

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