PAR-6 is a conserved PDZ domain-containing protein that colocalizes with PAR-3 in Caenorhabditis elegans embryos

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 127-135

  Hung, Tak June ^a   Kemphues, Kenneth J ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Caenorhabditis elegans; par; PAR 6; PDZ domain; PKC 3

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE C;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HELMINTH PROTEINS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; ZYGOTE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; RICKETTSIA SP. PAR;

EID: 0032949091     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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