Roles of the homethorax/Meis/Prep homolog UNC-62 and the Exd/Pbx homologs CEH-20 and CEH-40 in C. elegans embryogenesis

Development

Volumn 129, Issue 22, 2002, Pages 5255-5268

  Van Auken, Kimberly ^a,c   Weaver, Daniel ^a,d   Robertson, Barbara ^a   Sundaram, Meera ^b   Saldi, Tassa ^a   Edgar, Lois ^a   Elling, Ulrich ^a,e   Lee, Monica ^a   Boese, Queta ^a,f   Wood, William B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d ARRAY BIOPHARMA INC   (United States)

^e EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^f Dharmacon Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryonic patterning; Hox proteins; Meis family; PBC family; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HOX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; CEH 20 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; CEH-20 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; EXTRADENTICLE PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; HELMINTH PROTEIN; HOMOTHORAX PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; MYELOID ECOTROPIC VIRAL INTEGRATION SITE 1 PROTEIN; TUMOR PROTEIN; UNC 62 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; UNC-62 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA BINDING; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH INHIBITION; HOX GENE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LETHALITY; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PENETRANCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SURVIVAL; VERTEBRATE; ZYGOTE; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; FETUS DEATH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA; VERTEBRATA;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FETAL DEATH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0036826906     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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