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Specific isoforms of squid, a Drosophila hnRNP, perform distinct roles in Gurken localization during oogenesis.
Genes & development - 1 Apr 1999
Norvell A, Kelley R L, Wehr K, Schüpbach T
Abstract excerpt
Heterogeneous nuclear RNA-binding proteins, hnRNPs, have been implicated in nuclear export of mRNAs in organisms from yeast to humans. A germ-line mutation in a Drosophila hnRNP, Squid (Sqd)/hrp40, causes female sterility as a result of mislocalization of gurken (grk) mRNA during oogenesis. Alternative splicing produces three isoforms, SqdA, SqdB, and SqdS. Here we show that these isoforms are not equivalent;...
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