Necesidad del factor de transcripción del dominio MADS D-MEF2 para la formación muscular en Drosophila

B Lilly1, B Zhao, G Ranganayakulu

  • 1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston 77030.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|February 3, 1995
PubMed
Resumen

Los factores de transcripción del factor de unión al potenciador de miocitos-2 (MEF2) son cruciales para la diferenciación de las células musculares en Drosophila. La pérdida de la función MEF2 impide el desarrollo de los músculos somáticos, cardíacos y viscerales, destacando su papel esencial en la miogénesis.

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