vab-8 is a key regulator of posteriorly directed migrations in C. elegans and encodes a novel protein with kinesin motor similarity

Neuron

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 655-666

  Wolf, Fred W ^a   Hung, Ming Shiu ^b,c   Wightman, Bruce ^a,d   Way, Jeff ^b,e   Garriga, Gian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^d MUHLENBERG COLLEGE   (United States)

^e FUJI Immunopharmaceutical   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINESIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POLARITY; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENE MAPPING; GROWTH CONE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0032055881     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)81006-5     Document Type: Article

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