The Caenorhabditis elegans sel-1 Gene, a Negative Regulator of lin-12 and glp-1, Encodes a Predicted Extracellular Protein

Genetics

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 237-247

  Grant, Barth ^a,b   Greenwald, Iva ^a,b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC REGULATION; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATOR GENE; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; GLP 1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; GLP-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; HELMINTH PROTEIN; LIN 12 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; LIN-12 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA; SEL 1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; SEL-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, REGULATOR; GENOTYPE; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

EID: 0029666010     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/genetics/143.1.237     Document Type: Article

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