Gain-of-function mutations in the Caenorhabditis elegans lin-1 ETS gene identify a C-terminal regulatory domain phosphorylated by ERK MAP kinase

Genetics

Volumn 149, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1809-1822

  Jacobs, Dave ^a   Beitel, Greg J ^b,c   Clark, Scott G ^b,d   Horvitz, H Robert ^b   Kornfeld, Kerry ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, HELMINTH; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MAP KINASE KINASE 1; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VULVA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031904310     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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