Abstract
Drosophila provides a powerful genetic model for studying the in vivo regulation of biological processes, such as cell proliferation, cell differentiation, and cell death. In a large-scale ectopic-expression screen in Drosophila for identifying genes regulating cell death, the fly homolog of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) encoded by eiger (e da-l i ke cell death trig ger) was identified [7]. eiger was also isolated independently through a molecular approach [15]. eiger encodes a protein of 409 amino acids with a C-terminal TNF homology domain and a hydrophobic transmembrane domain. The sequence of the Eiger’s TNF domain shows highest homology with human EDA-A2 (28%) and also shows significant homology with all known mammalian TNF superfamily members.
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Igaki, T., Kanda, H., Okano, H., Xu, T., Miura, M. (2011). Eiger and Wengen: The Drosophila Orthologs of TNF/TNFR. In: Wallach, D., Kovalenko, A., Feldmann, M. (eds) Advances in TNF Family Research. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 691. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6612-4_5
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