The C. elegans gene pag-3 is homologous to the zinc finger proto-oncogene gfi-1

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2063-2073

  Jia, Yiwen ^a,b   Xie, Guofeng ^a,b   McDermott, Joan B ^a   Aamodt, Eric ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Cellular differentiation; Gene expression; Lymphomagenesis; Motor neurons; Proto oncogene; Touch receptors; Zinc finger

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HISTIDINE; TYROSINE; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE FUSION; GENE SEQUENCE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, HELMINTH; INTERNEURONS; MECHANORECEPTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOSAICISM; MOVEMENT; MUTATION; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, HELMINTH; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0030922707     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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