The C. elegans homeodomain gene unc-42 regulates chemosensory and glutamate receptor expression

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2241-2251

  Baran, Renee ^a,c   Aronoff, Rachel ^b,d   Garriga, Gian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Axon pathfinding; Caenorhabditis elegans; Homeodomain; Mechanosensory; unc 42

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FATE; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE STRUCTURE; INTERNEURON; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; SENSORY NERVE CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VENTRAL ROOT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHEMORECEPTORS; DNA, HELMINTH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTERNEURONS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTOR NEURONS; MUTAGENESIS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RABBITS; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033011571     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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