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pokkuri, a Drosophila gene encoding an E-26-specific (Ets) domain protein, prevents overproduction of the R7 photoreceptor.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 Aug 1992
Tei H, Nihonmatsu I, Yokokura T, Ueda R, Sano Y, Okuda T, Sato K, Hirata K, Fujita S C, Yamamoto D
Abstract excerpt
Studies on sevenless and bride of sevenless genes have revealed that the R8 cell plays a key role in the fate of the R7 photoreceptor cell, presenting on its surface an inductive cue to which R7 responds. sev-independent induction of R7 cells has been reported in the seven-up mutation, which appears to transform R1 and R6 cells to R7 cells. We have induced recessive mutations in a gene pokkuri (pok; pokkuri is a...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Crosses, Genetic
- DNA-Binding Proteins
- Drosophila
- Eye Proteins
- Female
- Genes
- Genetic Carrier Screening