Control of organ shape by a secreted metalloprotease in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

Nature

Volumn 399, Issue 6736, 1999, Pages 586-590

  Blelloch, Robert ^a   Kimblett, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; METALLOPROTEINASE; PROTEIN GON 1; THROMBOSPONDIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC REGULATION; MORPHOGENESIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, HELMINTH; GONADS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MALE; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; THROMBOSPONDIN 1; TRANSGENES;

BOVINAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INSECTA; MURINAE; NEMATODA;

EID: 0033542457     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/21196     Document Type: Article

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