Map kinase signaling specificity mediated by the LIN-1 Ets/LIN-31 WH transcription factor complex during C. elegans vulval induction

Cell

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 569-580

  Tan, Patrick B ^a   Lackner, Mark R ^a,b   Kim, Stuart K ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LIN 1 ETS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LIN 31; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; EMBRYO INDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VULVA;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032524912     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81186-1     Document Type: Article

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