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ArticleMolecular genetics and genomics : MGG2005

The Kavar(D) dominant female-sterile mutations of Drosophila reveal a role for the maternally provided alpha-tubulin4 isoform in cleavage spindle maintenance and elongation.

Zsolt Venkei, János Szabad

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Article in Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Zsolt VenkeiMaternal-Effect and Embryogenesis Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, Somogyi B. u. 4, H-6720, Szeged, Hungary.
János Szabad

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Abstract

The dominant-negative female-sterile Kavar(D) mutations and their revertant kavar(r) alleles identify the alphaTubulin67C gene of Drosophila melanogaster, which codes for the maternally provided alpha-tubulin(4) isoform. The mutations result in the formation of monopolar, collapsed spindles (each with two nearby centrosomes, a tassel of microtubules and overcondensed chromosomes), thus revealing a novel function for alpha-tubulin(4) in spindle maintenance and elongation. Molecular features of the two Kavar(D) alleles and a kavar(null) allele are described and models for their actions are discussed.

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AllelesAnimalsChromosome MappingDrosophila melanogasterFemaleGenes, DominantImmunohistochemistryMutationProtein IsoformsSpindle ApparatusTransgenesTubulinProtein IsoformsTubulin

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