An isoform of elF4E is a component of germ granules and is required for spermatogenesis in C. elegans

Development

Volumn 128, Issue 20, 2001, Pages 3899-3912

  Amiri, A ^a   Keiper, B D ^a   Kawasaki, I ^a   Fan, Y ^a   Kohara, Y ^a   Rhoads, R E ^a   Strome, S ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; elF4E; P granules; Spermatogenesis; Translation initiation

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR 4E; INITIATION FACTOR E 1; INITIATION FACTOR E 2; INITIATION FACTOR E 3; INITIATION FACTOR E 4; INITIATION FACTOR E 5; MESSENGER RNA; P GRANULE PROTEIN 1; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INITIATION FACTOR; ISOPROTEIN; PGL 1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; PGL-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM LINE; GONAD; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TEMPERATURE; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; ANIMAL; CELL GRANULE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INFERTILITY; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-4E; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HERMAPHRODITISM; INFERTILITY; MALE; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0034740374     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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