The C. elegans MEX-1 protein is present in germline blastomeres and is a P granule component

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 731-739

  Guedes, Susana ^a   Priess, James R ^a,b  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Germ cells; mex 1; P granules; pie 1

Indexed keywords

CYTOPLASM PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ORGANELLE; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO CELL; GERM CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOMATIC CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLASTOMERES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GERM CELLS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0031056262     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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