The C. elegans che-1 gene encodes a zinc finger transcription factor required for specification of the ASE chemosensory neurons

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1215-1224

  Uchida, Okiko ^a   Nakano, Hiroyuki ^a   Koga, Makoto ^a   Ohshima, Yasumi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ASE neuron; C. elegans; che 1; Chemotaxis; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE; DYE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; WATER; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CHANNEL GATING; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOLUBILITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHEMORECEPTORS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENES, REPORTER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEURONS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0037383422     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00341     Document Type: Review

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