Staufen targets coracle mRNA to Drosophila neuromuscular junctions and regulates GluRIIA synaptic accumulation and bouton number

Developmental Biology

Volumn 392, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 153-167

  Gardiol, Alejandra ^a   St Johnston, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glutamate receptors; MRNA localisation; Neuromuscular junction; Staufen; Subsynaptic translation

Indexed keywords

CORACLE; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR IIA; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR IIB; MESSENGER RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; STAUFEN; TROPOMYOSIN; TROPOMYOSIN II; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BOUTON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE DISRUPTION; LARVA; NERVE FIBER; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; RNA TRANSLATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CORA; VERTEBRATA;

GLUTAMATE RECEPTORS; MRNA LOCALISATION; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; STAUFEN; SUBSYNAPTIC TRANSLATION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 84904393775     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2014.06.007     Document Type: Article

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