Article
The temporal and spatial distribution pattern of maternal exuperantia protein: evidence for a role in establishment but not maintenance of bicoid mRNA localization.
The EMBO journal - 1 Dec 1991
Marcey D, Watkins W S, Hazelrigg T
Abstract excerpt
The exuperantia (exu) gene of Drosophila melanogaster plays a fundamental role in the establishment of polarity of the oocyte and early embryo by ensuring the proper localization of the mRNA of the bicoid (bcd) gene to anterior regions of the oocyte. We have isolated and sequenced the exu gene, sequenced its female-specific transcript and a mutant allele of exu that affects primarily exu's female germline...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Western
- DNA
- Drosophila Proteins
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Egg Proteins
- Female
- Immunohistochemistry
- Molecular Sequence Data