The Caenorhabditis elegans gene unc-89, required for muscle M-line assembly, encodes a giant modular protein composed of Ig and signal transduction domains

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 132, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 835-848

  Benian, Guy M ^a   Tinley, Tina L ^a   Tang, Xuexin ^a   Borodovsky, Mark ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE; MYOFILAMENT; NEMATODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENES, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLES; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0029978282     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.132.5.835     Document Type: Article

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