Maintaining neural stem cell identity in the brain.
In the developing fruit fly brain, a protein called Trithorax increases the number of neural cells produced from a single stem cell, in part by regulating the transcription of the target genes buttonhead and pointed.
Yanrui Jiang is in the Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland yanrui.jiang@unibas.ch.
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Heinrich Reichert is in the Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland heinrich.reichert@unibas.ch.
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D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000166:cytology*; D019070:Cell Lineage; D029721:Drosophila Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000166:cytology* / Q000378:metabolism; D058953:Neural Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology*
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D. melanogaster; buttonhead; developmental biology; intermediate neural progenitor; neural stem cells; neuroblast; pointed; stem cells; trithorax