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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-8-10
pubmed:abstractText
To identify novel factors involved in Drosophila hematopoiesis, we screened a collection of lethal recessive mutations that also affected normal hemocyte composition in larvae. We present the characterization of the gene yantar (ytr) for which we isolated null and hypomorphic mutations that were associated with severe defects in hemocyte differentiation and proliferation; ytr is predominantly expressed in the hematopoietic tissue during larval development and encodes an evolutionary conserved protein which is predominantly localized in the nucleus. The hematopoietic phenotype in ytr mutants is consistent with a defect or block in differentiation of precursor hemocytes: mutant larvae have enlarged lymph glands (LGs) and have an excess of circulating hemocytes. In addition, many cells exhibit both lamellocyte and crystal cell markers. Ytr function has been preserved in evolution as hematopoietic specific expression of the Drosophila or mouse Ytr proteins rescue the differentiation defects in mutant hemocytes.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0012-1606
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
273
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
48-62
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15302597-3T3 Cells, pubmed-meshheading:15302597-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:15302597-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:15302597-Blotting, Northern, pubmed-meshheading:15302597-COS Cells, pubmed-meshheading:15302597-Cercopithecus aethiops, pubmed-meshheading:15302597-Chromosome Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:15302597-DNA Primers, pubmed-meshheading:15302597-Drosophila, pubmed-meshheading:15302597-Drosophila Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:15302597-Hematopoiesis, pubmed-meshheading:15302597-Hemocytes, pubmed-meshheading:15302597-Immunohistochemistry, pubmed-meshheading:15302597-In Situ Hybridization, pubmed-meshheading:15302597-Larva, pubmed-meshheading:15302597-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:15302597-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:15302597-Mutagenesis, pubmed-meshheading:15302597-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:15302597-Nuclear Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:15302597-Phenotype, pubmed-meshheading:15302597-Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:15302597-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:15302597-Sequence Alignment, pubmed-meshheading:15302597-Sequence Analysis, DNA
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Yantar, a conserved arginine-rich protein is involved in Drosophila hemocyte development.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA. sergey_sinenko@dfci.harvard.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't