A Global In Vivo Drosophila RNAi Screen Identifies a Key Role of Ceramide Phosphoethanolamine for Glial Ensheathment of Axons

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Ghosh, Aniket ^a,b   Kling, Tina ^a,b   Snaidero, Nicolas ^a,b   Sampaio, Julio L ^c   Shevchenko, Andrej ^c   Gras, Heribert ^b   Geurten, Bart ^b   Göpfert, Martin C ^b   Schulz, Jörg B ^d   Voigt, Aaron ^d   Simons, Mikael ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; CERAMIDE; PHOSPHOETHANOLAMINE; SERINE PALMITOYLTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ESSENTIAL GENE; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC SCREENING; GLIA; GLIA CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; LIPID METABOLISM; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NERVE SHEATH; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL MOVEMENT; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE SILENCING; GENOME, INSECT; HUMANS; LIPID METABOLISM; NEUROGENESIS; NEUROGLIA; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPHINGOMYELINS;

EID: 84892733008     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003980     Document Type: Article

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