Genomic structure and 5′ regulatory regions of the let-23 gene in the nematode C. Elegans

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 256, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 548-555

  Sakai, Tomoe ^a   Koga, Makoto ^a   Ohshima, Yasumi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

C. Elegans; Let 23; Receptor tyrosine kinase; Transcriptional cis element; Vulva development

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; INTRON; LARVA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; VULVA;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS VULGARIS;

EID: 0029993534     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0107     Document Type: Article

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