RNA-Regulated TRA-1 Nuclear Export Controls Sexual Fate

Developmental Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 539-551

  Segal, S P ^a   Graves, L E ^a   Verheyden, J ^b   Goodwin, E B ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HELMINTH PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; TRA 1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; TRA-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; TRA2 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSACTIVATION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CYTOPLASM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0035491865     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1534-5807(01)00068-5     Document Type: Article

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