A conserved RNA-binding protein that regulates sexual fates in the C. elegans hermaphrodite germ line

Nature

Volumn 390, Issue 6659, 1997, Pages 477-484

  Zhang, Beilin ^a   Gallegos, Maria ^a   Puoti, Alessandro ^a   Durkin, Eileen ^a   Fields, Stanley ^b   Kimble, Judith ^a   Wickens, Marvin P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA FLANKING REGION; HERMAPHRODITISM; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA BINDING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TANDEM REPEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HERMAPHRODITISM; HUMANS; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOGENESIS; RNA, HELMINTH; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 0031452082     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/37297     Document Type: Review

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