regA, a Volvox gene that plays a central role in germ-soma differentiation, encodes a novel regulatory protein

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 639-647

  Kirk, Marilyn M ^a   Stark, Klaus ^b   Miller, Stephen M ^a   Müller, Waltraud ^a   Taillon, Bruce E ^a   Gruber, Heribert ^b   Schmitt, Rüdiger ^b   Kirk, David L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active repressor; Chloroplast biogenesis; Green algae; regA; Transcriptional repressor; Volvox carteri

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; GLUTAMINE; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; PROLINE; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CHLOROPLAST; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM CELL; GREEN ALGA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; REPRESSOR GENE; REPRODUCTION; SOMATIC CELL; TRANSPOSON;

ALGAE, GREEN; ALGAL PROTEINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; VOLVOX; VOLVOX CARTERI;

EID: 0032970065     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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