Tissue-specific and developmental effects of the easily shocked mutation on ethanolamine kinase activity and phospholipid composition in Drosophila melanogaster.

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The easily shocked (eas) gene of Drosophila melanogaster encodes ethanolamine kinase (EK), the first step in phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) synthesis via the CDP-ethanolamine pathway Flies mutant for eas display a complex neurological phenotype. In this paper we look at the contribution of EK to lipid metabolism during Drosophila development with the goal of linking the eas biochemical defect with the organismal...

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