Map kinase and Wnt pathways converge to downregulate an HMG-domain repressor in Caenorhabditis elegans

Nature

Volumn 399, Issue 6738, 1999, Pages 793-797

  Meneghini, Marc D ^a   Ishitani, Tohru ^b   Carter, J Clayton ^a   Hisamoto, Naoki ^b   Ninomiya Tsuji, Jun ^b   Thorpe, Christopher J ^a,c   Hamill, Danlelle R ^a   Matsumoto, Kunihiro ^b   Bowerman, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FATE; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; JNK MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MAP KINASE KINASE 4; MAP KINASE KINASE KINASES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033600227     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/21666     Document Type: Article

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