Expression profiles of the essential intermediate filament (IF) protein A2 and the IF protein C2 in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 117, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 311-314

  Karabinos, Anton ^a   Schulze, Ekkehard ^b   Klisch, Tiemo ^a   Wang, Jian ^a   Weber, Klaus ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Desmosomes; Hypodermis; Intermediate filament; Promoter

Indexed keywords

INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN A2; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN C2; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DESMOSOME; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; INTESTINE CELL; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DNA, HELMINTH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, HELMINTH; RNA, MESSENGER;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HYPODERRIS;

EID: 0036768348     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(02)00192-2     Document Type: Article

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