Translational control of maternal glp-1 mRNA by POS-1 and its interacting protein SPN-4 in Caenorhabditis elegans

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2495-2503

  Ogura, Ken Ichi ^a,c   Kishimoto, Norihito ^a   Mitani, Shohei ^b   Gengyo Ando, Keiko ^b   Kohara, Yuji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

3 UTR; Caenorhabditis elegans; Maternal mRNA; RNA binding protein; Translational control

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN GLP 1; PROTEIN POS 1; PROTEIN SPN 4; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BLASTOMERE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BLASTOMERES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, HELMINTH; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ZINC FINGERS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038010231     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00469     Document Type: Review

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