The Caenorhabditis elegans gene lin-1 encodes an ETS-domain protein and defines a branch of the vulval induction pathway

Genes and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 24, 1995, Pages 3149-3162

  Beitel, Greg J ^a,b   Tuck, Simon ^c,d   Greenwald, Iva ^c   Horvitz, H Robert ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Columbia Univ Coll Phys Surgs ^*  (United States)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

C. elegans; cell fate; ETS; lin 1; signal transduction

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; GENE PRODUCT; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STEM CELL; VULVA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0029585636     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.9.24.3149     Document Type: Article

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