lir-2, lir-1 and lin-26 encode a new class of zinc-finger proteins and are organized in two overlapping operons both in Caenorhabditis elegans and in Caenorhabditis briggsae

Genetics

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 221-235

  Dufourcq, Pascale ^a,b   Chanal, Philippe ^a   Vicaire, Serge ^a   Camut, Elise ^a   Quintin, Sophie ^a   Den Boer, Bart G W ^a   Bosher, Julia M ^a   Labouesse, Michel ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; ECTODERM; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC DISTANCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTENY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0032921851     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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