Genetic requirements for PIE-1 localization and inhibition of gene expression in the embryonic germ lineage of Caenorhabditis elegans

Developmental Biology

Volumn 200, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 212-224

  Tenenhaus, Christina ^a   Schubert, Charlotte ^b   Seydoux, Geraldine ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; CTD phosphorylation; Germline; P granules; PIE 1; RNA polymerase II; Transcriptional repression

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE II;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SOMATIC CELL GENETICS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032529361     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1998.8940     Document Type: Article

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