Pei-Chi Chung1, Kai-Yuan Ku1, Sao-Yu Chu1

  • 1Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

eLife
|February 27, 2026
PubMed
まとめ

この研究では、ショウジョウバエのキノロン細胞(KC)の後半生まれの細胞の重要な転写因子としてEip93Fを特定しています。Eip93Fは遺伝子発現とカルシウムチャネルを調節し、KCの同一性と行動を結びつけ、他のTFとのネットワークを形成します。

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