Caenorhabditis elegans MES-3 is a target of GLD-1 and functions epigenetically in germline development

Genetics

Volumn 159, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 1007-1017

  Xu, Lei ^a,d   Paulsen, Janet ^a,e   Yoo, Young ^b   Goodwin, Elizabeth B ^c   Strome, Susan ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN GLD 1; PROTEIN MES 2; PROTEIN MES 3; PROTEIN MES 6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; HERMAPHRODITISM; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WORM;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MEIOSIS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MITOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RATS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0035674968     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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