Type IV collagen is detectable in most, but not all, basement membranes of Caenorhabditis elegans and assembles on tissues that do not express it

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 137, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1171-1183

  Graham, Patricia L ^a   Johnson, Jeffrey J ^a   Wang, Shaoru ^a   Sibley, Marion H ^a,b   Gupta, Malini C ^a   Kramer, James M ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; PROTEOGLYCAN;

ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; MAMMAL; METAZOON; MUSCLE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BLASTOMERES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COLLAGEN; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MUSCLES;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HYPODERRIS; MAMMALIA; METAZOA;

EID: 0030989696     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.137.5.1171     Document Type: Article

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