wisp

Summary

Gene Symbol: wisp
Description: wispy
Alias: CG15737, DmCG15737, Dmel\CG15737, TAMP, Wisp, fs(1)M19, CG15737-PA, female sterile(1)M19, temprano, toll pathway activation mediating protein, wisp-PA
Species: fruit fly

Top Publications

  1. ncbi subito encodes a kinesin-like protein required for meiotic spindle pole formation in Drosophila melanogaster
    Kelly L Giunta
    Waksman Institute and Department of Genetics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA
    Genetics 160:1489-501. 2002
  2. ncbi Developmental genetics of the Drosophila egg. I. Identification of 59 sex-linked cistrons with maternal effects on embryonic development
    J D Mohler
    Genetics 85:259-72. 1977
  3. ncbi The Drosophila wispy gene is required for RNA localization and other microtubule-based events of meiosis and early embryogenesis
    A E Brent
    Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
    Genetics 154:1649-62. 2000
  4. ncbi A regulatory cytoplasmic poly(A) polymerase in Caenorhabditis elegans
    Liaoteng Wang
    Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
    Nature 419:312-6. 2002
  5. ncbi Wispy, the Drosophila homolog of GLD-2, is required during oogenesis and egg activation
    Jun Cui
    Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
    Genetics 178:2017-29. 2008
  6. ncbi PAP- and GLD-2-type poly(A) polymerases are required sequentially in cytoplasmic polyadenylation and oogenesis in Drosophila
    Perrine Benoit
    mRNA Regulation and Development, Institut de Genetique Humaine, CNRS UPR 1142, 141 rue de la Cardonille, 34396 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
    Development 135:1969-79. 2008
  7. ncbi Regulation of maternal transcript destabilization during egg activation in Drosophila
    Wael Tadros
    Program in Developmental Biology, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
    Genetics 164:989-1001. 2003

Detail Information

Publications7

  1. ncbi subito encodes a kinesin-like protein required for meiotic spindle pole formation in Drosophila melanogaster
    Kelly L Giunta
    Waksman Institute and Department of Genetics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA
    Genetics 160:1489-501. 2002
    ..sub is also required for the early embryonic divisions but is otherwise dispensable for most mitotic divisions...
  2. ncbi Developmental genetics of the Drosophila egg. I. Identification of 59 sex-linked cistrons with maternal effects on embryonic development
    J D Mohler
    Genetics 85:259-72. 1977
    ..The mutant strains are potentially important material for the study of developing egg envelopes and for furthering the analysis of causation in embryogenesis and its origins in oogenesis...
  3. ncbi The Drosophila wispy gene is required for RNA localization and other microtubule-based events of meiosis and early embryogenesis
    A E Brent
    Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
    Genetics 154:1649-62. 2000
    ..We propose that the wispy gene product functions directly in several microtubule-based events in meiosis and early embryogenesis and speculate about its possible mode of action...
  4. ncbi A regulatory cytoplasmic poly(A) polymerase in Caenorhabditis elegans
    Liaoteng Wang
    Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
    Nature 419:312-6. 2002
    ..We suggest that GLD-2 is the prototype for a class of regulatory cytoplasmic PAPs that are recruited to specific mRNAs by a binding partner, thereby targeting those mRNAs for polyadenylation and increased expression...
  5. ncbi Wispy, the Drosophila homolog of GLD-2, is required during oogenesis and egg activation
    Jun Cui
    Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
    Genetics 178:2017-29. 2008
    ..wispy (wisp) maternal-effect mutations in Drosophila block development during the egg-to-embryo transition...
  6. ncbi PAP- and GLD-2-type poly(A) polymerases are required sequentially in cytoplasmic polyadenylation and oogenesis in Drosophila
    Perrine Benoit
    mRNA Regulation and Development, Institut de Genetique Humaine, CNRS UPR 1142, 141 rue de la Cardonille, 34396 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
    Development 135:1969-79. 2008
    ..We conclude that two distinct poly(A) polymerases have a role in cytoplasmic polyadenylation in the female germline, each of them being specifically required for different steps of oogenesis...
  7. ncbi Regulation of maternal transcript destabilization during egg activation in Drosophila
    Wael Tadros
    Program in Developmental Biology, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
    Genetics 164:989-1001. 2003
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