Article
Morphological and molecular characterization of new Drosophila cell lines established from a strain permissive for gypsy transposition.
In vitro cellular & developmental biology. Animal - 1 Jan 2000
Chalvet F, Debec A, Marcaillou C, Rougeau C, Bucheton A
Abstract excerpt
The gypsy element of Drosophila melanogaster is the first retrovirus identified in invertebrates. Its transposition is controlled by a host gene called flamenco (flam): restrictive alleles of this gene maintain the retrovirus in a repressed state while permissive alleles allow high levels of transposition. To develop a cell system to study the gypsy element, we established four independent cell lines derived from...
Topics
- Animals
- Cell Culture Techniques
- Cell Line
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Genes, Insect
- Glycogen
- Membrane Proteins
- Microscopy, Electron
- Mitochondria
- Mutation
- Retroviridae
- Viral Envelope Proteins