The Drosophila Wilms' Tumor 1-Associating Protein (WTAP) homolog is required for eye development

Developmental Biology

Volumn 390, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 170-180

  Anderson, Abigail M ^a   Weasner, Brandon P ^a   Weasner, Bonnie M ^a   Kumar, Justin P ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Elav; Eye development; Fl(2)d; Lozenge; Sine oculis

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; PROTEIN FL(2)D; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN EMBRYONIC LETHAL ABNORMAL VISION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LOZENGE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SINE OCULIS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WILMS TUMOR1 ASSOCIATING PROTEIN; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; EYE PROTEIN; EYES ABSENT PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; FL(2)D PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; GROUCHO PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SINE OCULIS PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTENNA (ORGAN); ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EYE DEVELOPMENT; IMAGINAL DISC; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINOBLASTOMA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; YEAST; ANIMAL; CROSS BREEDING; DNA SEQUENCE; ELAV; FL(2)D; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LOZENGE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RETINA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINE OCULIS; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

DROSOPHILA; ELAV; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FL(2)D; LOZENGE; SINE OCULIS;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMAGINAL DISCS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RETINA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84899474799     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2014.03.012     Document Type: Article

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