Conservation of the C.elegans tra-2 3'UTR translational control

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 20, 1997, Pages 6301-6313

  Jan, Eric ^a   Yoon, Joon Won ^a   Walterhouse, Dave ^a   Iannaccone, Phil ^a   Goodwin, Elizabeth B ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C.elegans; GLI; TGE; tra 2; Translational control

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; GENE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRANSGENE; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0030663764     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.20.6301     Document Type: Article

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