UNC-55, an orphan nuclear hormone receptor, orchestrates synaptic specificity among two classes of motor neurons in Caenorhabditis elegans

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 10438-10444

  Mimi Zhou, H ^a,b   Walthall, W W ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Motor neurons; Neuromuscular junction; Nuclear hormone receptor; Synaptic specificity; unc 55

Indexed keywords

HORMONE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOTONEURON; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSPOSON;

EID: 0032535041     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-24-10438.1998     Document Type: Article

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