Developmental genetic analysis of troponin T mutations in striated and nonstriated muscle cells of Caenorhabditis elegans

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1061-1077

  Myers, Carol D ^a,c   Goh, Phuay Yee ^b   Allen, Taylor StC ^a   Bucher, Elizabeth A ^a   Bogaert, Thierry ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c Thomas More College   (United States)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CALCIUM ION; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; TROPOMYOSIN; TROPONIN C; TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T;

ALLELE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GONAD FUNCTION; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE FIBER CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SARCOMERE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CODON; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; GONADS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HERMAPHRODITISM; LARVA; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; OVIDUCTS; SARCOMERES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TEMPERATURE; TROPONIN; TROPONIN T;

EID: 0029928191     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.132.6.1061     Document Type: Article

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