Dual Bar homeo box genes of Drosophila required in two photoreceptor cells, R1 and R6, and primary pigment cells for normal eye development.

Shin‐ichi Higashijima, Tetsuya Kojima, Tatsuo Michiue, +3

Genes & Development

Ommatidial DifferentiationGeneticsMolecular GeneticsNormal Eye DevelopmentBar Mutation +16

Short-Interfering-RNA-Mediated Gene Silencing in Mammalian Cells Requires Dicer and eIF2C Translation Initiation Factors

Noboru Doi, Shuhei Zenno, Ryu Ueda, +3

Current Biology

MedicineGeneticsRna BiologyGene ExpressionShort-interfering-rna-mediated Gene Silencing +2

Retrovirus-like particles containing RNA homologous to the transposable element copia in Drosophila melanogaster

Tadayoshi Shiba, Kaoru Saigo

Nature

BiologyDrosophila MelanogasterViral ReplicationRetrovirus-like ParticlesNatural Sciences +9

Retroviral protease-like sequence in the yeast transposon Ty 1

Hiroyuki Toh, Masao Ono, Kaoru Saigo, +1

Nature

Retroviral Protease-like SequenceNatural SciencesMolecular BiologyYeastMolecular Genetics +1

Identification of the coding sequence for a reverse transcriptase-like enzyme in a transposable genetic element in Drosophila melanogaster

Kaoru Saigo, Wataru Kugimiya, Yoshinori Matsuo, +3

Nature

Drosophila MelanogasterGeneticsCoding SequenceReverse Transcriptase-like EnzymeGene Regulation +10

Biochemical characterization of NfsA, the Escherichia coli major nitroreductase exhibiting a high amino acid sequence homology to Frp, a Vibrio harveyi flavin oxidoreductase

Shuhei Zenno, Hiroki Koike, Ajit Kumar, +3

Journal of Bacteriology

Flavin Reductase ActivityBiochemical CharacterizationBiochemistryReactive Nitrogen SpecieNatural Sciences +9

Inducible Expression of Double-Stranded RNA Reveals a Role for dFADD in the Regulation of the Antibacterial Response in Drosophila Adults

François Leulier, Sheila Vidal, Kaoru Saigo, +2

Current Biology

EngineeringInducible ExpressionGeneticsRna BiologyGene Regulation +8

Functional dissection of siRNA sequence by systematic DNA substitution: modified siRNA with a DNA seed arm is a powerful tool for mammalian gene silencing with significantly reduced off-target effect

Kumiko Ui‐Tei, Yuki Naito, Shuhei Zenno, +5

Nucleic Acids Research

Requirements of DFR1/Heartless, a mesoderm-specific <i>Drosophila</i> FGF-receptor, for the formation of heart, visceral and somatic muscles, and ensheathing of longitudinal axon tracts in CNS

Emiko Shishido, Naotaka Ono, Tetsuya Kojima, +1

Development

Thermodynamic stability and Watson–Crick base pairing in the seed duplex are major determinants of the efficiency of the siRNA-based off-target effect

Kumiko Ui‐Tei, Yuki Naito, Kenji Nishi, +2

Nucleic Acids Research