A C. elegans Ror receptor tyresine kinase regulates cell motility and asymmetric cell division

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6747, 1999, Pages 881-885

  Forrester, Wayne C ^a,b   Dell, Megan ^a   Perens, Elliot ^a   Garriga, Gian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOTILITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOVEMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, HELMINTH; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOSAICISM; MUTAGENESIS; NEURONS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0033607015     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/23722     Document Type: Article

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