The C. elegans vulval induction gene lin-2 encodes a member of the MAGUK family of cell junction proteins

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 97-111

  Hoskins, Roger ^a   Hajnal, Alex F ^a   Harp, Stacey A ^a   Kim, Stuart K ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Discs large; let 23; lin 2; MAGUK; Receptor tyrosine kinase; Vulval induction; ZO 1

Indexed keywords

GUANYLATE KINASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL JUNCTION; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; VULVA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, HELMINTH; FEMALE; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, RAS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; VULVA;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030067804     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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