Atypical protein kinase C cooperates with PAR-3 to establish embryonic polarity in Caenorhabditis elegans

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 3607-3614

  Tabuse, Yo ^a   Izumi, Yasushi ^b   Piano, Fabio ^c   Kemphues, Kenneth J ^c   Miwa, Johji ^a   Ohno, Shigeo ^b  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

aPKC; Asymmetry; Caenorhabditis elegans; Cell polarity; Par 3

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE C;

ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL POLARITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CALCIUM; CELL POLARITY; DIGLYCERIDES; DNA, HELMINTH; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN KINASE C; RNA, HELMINTH;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; RICKETTSIA SP. PAR;

EID: 0031674842     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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