The Caenorhabditis elegans LIN-26 protein is required to specify and/or maintain all non-neuronal ectodermal cell fates

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 2579-2588

  Labouesse, Michel ^a,b   Hartwieg, Erika ^a   Robert Horvitz, H ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Asymmetric cell division; Caenorhabditis elegans; Cell fate; Glial cells; Hypodermis; LIN 26; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; GENE MUTATION; GLIA CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ECTODERM; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTATION; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HYPODERRIS;

EID: 0029791914     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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