Molecular and functional analysis of Drosophila Hillarin and its leech homolog

v GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1 DISSERTATION ORGANIZATION 1 BACKGROUND 2 MOLECULAR IDENTIFICATION AND SEQUENCE ANALYSIS OF HILLARIN, A NOVEL PROTEIN LOCALIZED AT THE AXON HILLOCK 20 ABSTRACT 20 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 21 REFERENCES 24 FIGURE LEGENDS 25 FIGURES 27 D-HEL, A NOVEL LIM-DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN IMPLICATED IN CYTOKINESIS, ASSOCIATES WITH THE SEPTIN FAMILY MEMBER PNUT 30 SUMMARY 30 INTRODUCTION 31 MATERIALS AND METHODS 34 RESULTS 41 DISCUSSION 48 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 51 REFERENCES 52 FIGURE LEGENDS 56 FIGURES 61 GENERAL CONCLUSION 73 LITERATURE CITED 82 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 93