A C. Elegans E/Daughterless bHLH protein marks neuronal but not striated muscle development

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2179-2189

  Krause, Michael ^a   Park, Morgan ^a   Zhang, Jian Ming ^b   Yuan, Jeff ^c   Harfe, Brian ^d,e   Xu, Si Qun ^d   Greenwald, Iva ^c,f   Cole, Michael ^c   Paterson, Bruce ^b   Fire, Andrew ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

bHLH; Caenorhabditis elegans; CeE DA; Daughterless; Myogenesis; Neurogenesis

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DIMERIZATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NERVE GROWTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STEM CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BLASTOMERES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIMERIZATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030739521     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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