Products of the unc-52 gene in Caenorhabditis elegans are homologous to the core protein of the mammalian basement membrane heparan sulfate proteoglycan

Genes and Development

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 1993, Pages 1471-1484

  Rogalski, Teresa M ^a   Williams, Benjamin D ^b   Mullen, Gregory P ^a   Moerman, Donald G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Basement membrane; Myofilament lattice; Perlecan; Unc 52 gene , C.elegans , muscle

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA;

CORE PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; LAMININ; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; PROTEOHEPARAN SULFATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENES, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HEPARITIN SULFATE; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; LAMININ; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROFILAMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEOGLYCANS; RECEPTORS, LDL; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0027325671     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.7.8.1471     Document Type: Article

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