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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Drosophila melanogaster
SUBMITTER: Allan Spradling
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-2784 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Developmental biology 20050701 2
We developed a method to highly purify germline stem cells (GSCs) from the Drosophila ovary, one of the best understood types of adult stem cell. GSCs express variant isoforms of general transcriptional components, translation initiation factors, and several variant ribosomal proteins, including RpL22, a protein enriched in several mammalian stem cells. These novel isoforms may help regulate stem cell gene expression because a reversion assay indicated that at least four were specific for GSCs. ...[more]