| Transformer | |
| Organism: | Drosophila melanogaster |
| Taxid: | 7227 |
| Symbol: | tra |
| Altsymbols: | CG16724; Dmel\CG16724; Dmtra |
| Entrezgene: | 39849 |
| Refseqmrna: | NM_079390.3 |
| Refseqprotein: | NP_524114.1 |
| Uniprot: | P11596 |
| Chromosome: | 3L |
| Entrezchromosome: | NT_037436.3 |
| Genloc Start: | 16583009 |
| Genloc End: | 16584298 |
| Uniprot: | P19018 |
| Organism: | Drosophila melanogaster |
| Transformer-2 | |
| Symbol: | tra2 |
Female-specific protein transformer is a protein that in Drosophila melanogaster is encoded by the tra gene. Unlike the related tra2 protein, it is only produced in females.
The transformer protein controls female somatic sexual differentiation.[1] [2] The protein contains an RNA recognition motif. It controls the alternative splicing of the fly sex determination gene doublesex.