The Caenorhabditis elegans genes egl-27 and egr-1 are similar to MTA1, a member of a chromatin regulatory complex, and are redundantly required for embryonic patterning

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2483-2494

  Solari, Florence ^a,c   Bateman, Alex ^b   Ahringer, Julie ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c WELLCOME CRC INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis; ELM1; ELM2; Histone deacetylation; Nucleosome remodelling; NURD; SANT; vab 7

Indexed keywords

HISTONE DEACETYLASE;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE INACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; HISTONES; MICROINJECTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032998903     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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