Interaction between the C. elegans cell-death regulators CED-9 and CED- 4

Nature

Volumn 385, Issue 6617, 1997, Pages 653-656

  Spector, Mona S ^a   Desnoyers, Serge ^a   Hoeppner, Daniel J ^a,b   Hengartner, Michael O ^a  

^a Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DEATH; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE DELETION;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 3A;

EID: 0031019739     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/385653a0     Document Type: Article

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