Tra (gene)

Transformer
Identifiers
Organism Drosophila melanogaster
Symbol tra
Alt. symbols CG16724; Dmel\CG16724; Dmtra
Entrez 39849
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_079390.3
RefSeq (Prot) NP_524114.1
UniProt P11596
Other data
Chromosome 3L: 16.58 - 16.58 Mb

Female-specific protein transformer is a protein that in Drosophila melanogaster is encoded by the tra gene.

The transformer protein controls female somatic sexual differentiation.[1][2]

References

  1. Boggs RT, Gregor P, Idriss S, Belote JM, McKeown M (August 1987). "Regulation of sexual differentiation in D. melanogaster via alternative splicing of RNA from the transformer gene". Cell 50 (5): 739–47. doi:10.1016/0092-8674(87)90332-1. PMID 2441872.
  2. Li H, Bingham PM (October 1991). "Arginine/serine-rich domains of the su(wa) and tra RNA processing regulators target proteins to a subnuclear compartment implicated in splicing". Cell 67 (2): 335–42. doi:10.1016/0092-8674(91)90185-2. PMID 1655279.