Kinesin Light Chains Are Essential for Axonal Transport in Drosophila [PDF]
, 1998 Kinesin is a heterotetramer composed of two 115-kD heavy chains and two 58-kD light chains. The microtubule motor activity of kinesin is performed by the heavy chains, but the functions of the light chains are poorly understood.
Beushausen, Sven +4 more
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Understanding the role of chromatin remodeling in the regulation of circadian transcription in Drosophila. [PDF]
, 2015 Circadian clocks enable organisms to anticipate daily changes in the environment and coordinate temporal rhythms in physiology and behavior with the 24-h day-night cycle. The robust cycling of circadian gene expression is critical for proper timekeeping,
Chiu, Joanna C +2 more
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Biochemical and functional analysis of Drosophila-sciara chimeric sex-lethal proteins. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 The Drosophila SXL protein controls sex determination and dosage compensation. It is a sex-specific factor controlling splicing of its own Sxl pre-mRNA (auto-regulation), tra pre-mRNA (sex determination) and msl-2 pre-mRNA plus translation of msl-2 mRNA (
María Fernanda Ruiz +4 more
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A role for Separase in telomere protection [PDF]
, 2016 Drosophila telomeres are elongated by transposition of specialized retroelements rather than telomerase activity and are assembled independently of the sequence. Fly telomeres are protected by the terminin complex that localizes and functions exclusively
Bosso, Giuseppe +9 more
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A modular toolset of phiC31-based fluorescent protein tagging vectors for Drosophila
Fly, 2019 The Drosophila transgenic technology and fluorescent protein fusions are powerful tools to analyze protein expression patterns, subcellular localization and protein dynamics.
Jun Luo, Pingping Shen, Jiong Chen
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Drosophila Mechanotransduction—Linking Proteins and Functions [PDF]
Fly, 2007 The sensation of touch, gravity, and sound all rely on dedicated ion channels that transduce mechanical stimulus forces into electrical signals. The functional workings and molecular identities of these mechanotransducer channels are little understood. Recent work shows that the mechanotransducers for fly and vertebrate hearing share equivalent gating ...
Albert, Jörg T. +2 more
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Identification and Investigation of Postsynaptic Density Homologs
Bioinformatics and Biology Insights, 2008 AMPA receptors are responsible for fast excitatory transmission in the CNS and the trafficking of these receptors has been implicated in LTP and learning and memory. These receptors reside in the postsynaptic density, a network of proteins that links the
Faith L.W. Liebl, David E. Featherstone
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A survey of well conserved families of C2H2 zinc-finger genes in
BMC Genomics, 2010 Background A recent comparative genomic analysis tentatively identified roughly 40 orthologous groups of C2H2 Zinc-finger proteins that are well conserved in "bilaterians" (i.e. worms, flies, and humans).
Bai Yang, Seetharam Arun, Stuart Gary W
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A Mammalian Homolog of Drosophila melanogaster Transcriptional Coactivator Intersex Is a Subunit of the Mammalian Mediator Complex [PDF]
, 2003 The multiprotein Mediator complex is a coactivator required for transcriptional activation of RNA polymerase II transcribed genes by DNA binding transcription factors.
Banks, Charles A. S. +7 more
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Genomic Analysis of Drosophila Neuronal Remodeling: A Role for the RNA-Binding Protein Boule as a Negative Regulator of Axon Pruning [PDF]
, 2008 Drosophila mushroom body (MB) {gamma} neurons undergo axon pruning during metamorphosis through a process of localized degeneration of specific axon branches.
Hoopfer, Eric D. +3 more
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