Inhibition of Caenorhabditis elegans vulval induction by gap-1 and by let-23 receptor tyrosine kinase

Genes and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 20, 1997, Pages 2715-2728

  Hajnal, Alex ^a,b   Whitfield, Charles W ^a   Kim, Stuart K ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Gap 1; GTPase activating protein; Let 23; Let 60; Ras; Receptor tyrosine kinase; Vulval induction

Indexed keywords

DNA; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; GROWTH ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RAS PROTEIN; RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE INDUCTION; GENE MUTATION; HERMAPHRODITISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; VULVA;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0030774790     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.11.20.2715     Document Type: Article

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