Two Zinc Finger Proteins, OMA-1 and OMA-2, Are Redundantly Required for Oocyte Maturation in C. elegans

Developmental Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 187-199

  Detwiler, Michelle R ^a   Reuben, Melanie ^a   Li, Xiumin ^a   Rogers, Eric ^a   Lin, Rueyling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; OMA 1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; OMA 2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; OMA-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; OMA-2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; RNA; RNA I; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROPHASE; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOZOON; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OOCYTES; PROPHASE; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEX FACTORS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOZOA; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0035433726     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1534-5807(01)00026-0     Document Type: Article

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