EGL-27 is similar to a metastasis-associated factor and controls cell polarity and cell migration in C. elegans

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1055-1064

  Herman, Michael A ^a,c   Ch'ng, QueeLim ^b   Hettenbach, Susan M ^a   Ratliff, Thomas M ^a   Kenyon, Cynthia ^b   Herman, Robert K ^c  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Cell migration; Cell polarity; EGL 20; EGL 27; LIN 44; Mtal; Wnt signaling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POLARITY; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL POLARITY; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; RATS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033032274     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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