kel-1, a novel Kelch-related gene in Caenorhabditis elegans, is expressed in pharyngeal gland cells and is required for the feeding process

Genes to Cells

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 325-337

  Ohmachi, Mitsue ^a   Sugimoto, Asako ^a,b   Iino, Yuichi ^a   Yamamoto, Masayuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DELETION MUTANT; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEEDING; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; LARVA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOMOZYGOTE; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHARYNX; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0032812915     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1999.00264.x     Document Type: Article

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