Polarization of the C. elegans zygote proceeds via distinct establishment and maintenance phases

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1255-1265

  Cuenca, Adrian A ^a   Schetter, Aaron ^b   Aceto, Donato ^b   Kemphues, Kenneth ^b   Seydoux, Geraldine ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Embryo; Par genes; Polarity

Indexed keywords

CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MYOSIN II; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; BIOACCUMULATION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL GROWTH; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO POLARITY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUCLEUS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERM; WILD TYPE; ZYGOTE;

14-3-3 PROTEINS; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEINS; RECEPTOR, PAR-2; RECEPTORS, THROMBIN; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; RICKETTSIA SP. PAR;

EID: 0037386142     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00284     Document Type: Review

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