Novel Features of dFMR1, the Drosophila Orthologue of the Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein
FMRP belongs to a family of widely expressed proteins that contain RNA-binding domains.Although lack of human FMRP results in mental retardation, correlated with subtle synaptic changes, the precise role of FMRP remains elusive.The Drosophila genome contains Purse a single gene homologous to the FXR family.We show that dFMR1 is subjected to transcr