Sonic Hedgehog? Sleeping Beauty? Learn About the Genes Behind Addgene’s Conference Room Names
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April 2, 2019, 1:44 p.m.
...after the protein Groucho, a transcriptional co-repressor important in development. Groucho family proteins...resembled those of the comedian Groucho Marx, so the gene was aptly named groucho (Fisher and Caudy, 1998).
... names. Now, we have meetings in rooms such as Groucho, Sonic Hedgehog, Sleeping Beauty, Cookie Monster...repository that you can use to study these genes!
Groucho, a transcriptional co-repressor
The first conference...contain a specific loss-of-function mutation in groucho have thick tufts of sensory bristles over their....
Interested in plasmids that contain the groucho gene? Check out plasmids deposited by the Shivdasani...Jennings, Barbara H., and David Ish-Horowicz. "The Groucho/TLE/Grg family of transcriptional co-repressors...