Depletion of a novel SET-domain protein enhances the sterility of mes-3 and mes-4 mutants of Caenorhabditis elegans

Genetics

Volumn 159, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 1019-1029

  Xu, Lei ^a   Strome, Susan ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN MES 3; PROTEIN MES 4; PROTEIN MES 6; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILITY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GERM LINE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; INFERTILITY; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA SPLICING;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HELMINTH PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INDOLES; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0035676156     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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