Carnitine suppression of position-effect variegation in Drosophila melanogaster.

doi:10.1007/BF00282748

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Carnitine suppression of position-effect variegation in Drosophila melanogaster.

Molecular & general genetics : MGG - 28 Sept 1994

Fanti L, Berloco M, Pimpinelli S

Abstract excerpt

Carnitine is a well-known naturally occurring compound, very similar to butyrate, with an essential role in intermediary metabolism mainly at the mitochondrial level. Since butyrate inhibits the enzyme histone deacetylase and is capable of suppressing position-effect variegation in Drosophila mel...

Topics

Alleles
Animals
Butyrates
Butyric Acid
Carnitine
Drosophila melanogaster
Eye Color
Female
Fluorescent Antibody Technique
Gene Rearrangement
HeLa Cells
Heterochromatin
Histones
Humans
Male
Phenotype

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