A HECT domain ubiquitin ligase closely related to the mammalian protein WWP1 is essential for Caenorhabditis elegans embryogenesis

Gene

Volumn 252, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 137-145

  Huang, Kai ^a   Johnson, Kirby D ^a   Petcherski, Andrei G ^b   Vandergon, Thomas ^c   Mosser, Eric A ^a   Copeland, Neal G ^d   Jenkins, Nancy A ^d   Kimble, Judith ^b   Bresnick, Emery H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene family; Morphogenesis; Ubiquitination; WW domain

Indexed keywords

LIGASE;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; LIGASES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MURIDAE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0034636710     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00216-X     Document Type: Article

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