eat-5 and unc-7 represent a multigene family in Caenorhabditis elegans involved in cell-cell coupling

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 537-548

  Starich, Todd A ^a   Lee, Raymond Y N ^b   Panzarella, Cristin ^b   Avery, Leon ^b   Shaw, Jocelyn E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL INTERACTION; CELL JUNCTION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE ISOLATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONNEXINS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; INSECT HORMONES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PHARYNGEAL MUSCLES; PHARYNX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0029982256     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.134.2.537     Document Type: Article

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