Deciphering the Genetic Programme Triggering Timely and Spatially-Regulated Chitin Deposition

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Moussian, Bernard ^a,d   Letizia, Annalisa ^b   Martínez Corrales, Guillermo ^b   Rotstein, Bárbara ^b,e   Casali, Andreu ^c   Llimargas, Marta ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE   (Spain)

^d CENTRE DE BIOCHIMIE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITIN; CHITIN SYNTHASE; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PROTEIN EXP; PROTEIN KKV; PROTEIN REB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; KKV PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTICLE; DROSOPHILA; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EXP GENE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REB GENE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TRACHEA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE;

HEXAPODA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHITIN; CHITIN SYNTHASE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MORPHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; TRACHEA;

EID: 84924386888     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004939     Document Type: Article

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