The STAR protein, GLD-1, is a translational regulator of sexual identity in Caenorhabditis elegans

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 258-269

  Jan, Eric ^a   Motzny, Cynthia K ^a,b   Graves, Laura E ^a   Goodwin, Elizabeth B ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

gld 1; Sex determination; STAR protein; tra 2; Translation

Indexed keywords

REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERM CELL; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REPORTER GENE; SEX DETERMINATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSLATION REGULATION; YEAST;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENES, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, HELMINTH; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033521534     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.1.258     Document Type: Article

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