New genes that interact with lin-35 Rb to negatively regulate the let-60 ras pathway in Caenorhabditis elegans

Genetics

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 135-151

  Thomas, Jeffrey H ^a,b   Ceol, Craig J ^a   Schwartz, Hillel T ^a   Horvitz, H Robert ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN LET60 RAS; PROTEIN LIN35 RB; PROTEIN LIN52; RAS PROTEIN; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE INTERACTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; VULVA;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MUTATION; RAS PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0037854693     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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