Regulation of the Caenorhabditis elegans gut cysteine protease gene cpr-1: Requirement for GATA motifs

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 283, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 15-27

  Britton, Collette ^a   McKerrow, James H ^b   Johnstone, Iain L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; cpr 1; Cysteine protease; GATA motifs; Gut cell expression

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EMBRYO; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; LARVA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0032538301     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2093     Document Type: Article

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