...-A Nuclear matrix Dosage compensation In mammals X inactivation establishes dosage compensation between males and females. Early in embryogenesis one of the two female X chromosomes is transcriptionally silenced by expression of Xist ( Heard and Disteche, 2006 ). The nuclear non-coding Xist RNA...

... cloning revealed that plexus encodes a novel 1990-amino acid protein with cysteine-rich motifs. Plexus protein was ubiquitously expressed and was tightly associated with the nuclear matrix. In plexus mutant wing imaginal discs, an anteroposterior positional coordinate was established normally as revealed...

... of Biologists 1993 maternal effect gene oogenesis RNA localization bicoid RNA nuclear divisions mitosis nuclear matrix Many of the proteins necessary for the early embryogenesis of Drosophila melanogaster are encoded by maternal effect genes, genes expressed during oogenesis whose...