Regulation of touch receptor differentiation by the Caenorhabditis elegans mec-3 and unc-86 genes

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 4107-4119

  Duggan, Anne ^a   Ma, Charles ^a   Chalfie, Martin ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis; Combinatorial control; mec 3; Touch receptor; unc 86

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOMEOBOX; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SENSORY RECEPTOR; TOUCH; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA FOOTPRINTING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, REPORTER; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; ION CHANNELS; MECHANORECEPTORS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NEURONS, AFFERENT; POU DOMAIN FACTORS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECEPTORS, SENSORY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE DELETION; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUBULIN;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031789944     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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