The tra-3 sex determination gene of Caenorhabditis elegans encodes a member of the calpain regulatory protease family

EMBO Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 17, 1996, Pages 4477-4484

  Barnes, Thomas M ^a,b   Hodgkin, Jonathan ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Calpain; Proteolysis; Sex determination; tra 3

Indexed keywords

CALPAIN; PROTEINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CALCIUM BINDING; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HERMAPHRODITISM; LIMB GIRDLE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEX DETERMINATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0029834118     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb00825.x     Document Type: Article

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