In the Drosophila genome, several genes have been described that encode for Gα proteins: Gs, Gi, Gq, Go, Gf, and concertina (cta), which can all be detected in the antennae by RT-PCR (Figure S1 and [21]).
A truncated splice variant of ATP7A, termed NML45 (Nuclear Menkes Like) has also been described that encodes a theoretical 11.2-kDa protein with one copper-binding site, and may function as a nuclear copper chaperone (Reddy et al, 2000).
One vsp gene has been described that is encoded as a duplicated pair.
Several multigene families have been described that together encode scores of structural cuticular proteins in Drosophila, although the functional significance of this diversity remains to be explored.
Furthermore, it has been described that the FTO gene encodes a 2-oxoglutarate-dependent nucleic acid demethylase [ 34, 35], which is a transcription coactivator related to energy homeostasis [ 34].
It has also been described that genetic transformation with genes encoding ADC improved environmental stress tolerance in various plant species [ 66].
An algorithm is described that, given a query and a finite encoding of an infinite set of GLAV formulas, finds all the certain answers to the query.
Given a natural number valued function m and a system of functions encoded in a matrix H satisfying certain conditions, a construction procedure is described that produces an abstract GMRA with multiplicity function m and filter system H.
Recently, an eighth gene, ACT1 (a. k. a. TRAF3IP2) has been described as encoding a ubiquitin ligase that may contain a very divergent U box [ 16].
To date, 2 different pilus islets (PIs) have been described in S. pneumoniae that encode the structural and biosynthetic genes for 2 antigenically different types of pili, PI-1 (8 ) and recently described PI-2 (9 ).
Three mRNA isoforms of NFAT5 have been described, all of which encode predicted proteins that are identical along 1455 amino acids and they only differ in that NFAT5b has 29 extra amino acids in its amino-terminus with respect to the shorter NFAT5a, and isoform NFAT5c is 47 amino acids longer than NFAT5b and 76 amino acids longer than NFAT5a [4].
