Chondroitin proteoglycans are involved in cell division of Caenorhabditis elegans

Nature

Volumn 423, Issue 6938, 2003, Pages 443-448

  Mizuguchi, Souhei ^a,b   Uyama, Toru ^d   Kitagawa, Hiroshi ^d   Nomura, Kazuko H ^a,b,c   Dejima, Katsufumi ^a,b   Gengyo Ando, Keiko ^e   Mitani, Shohei ^c,e   Sugahara, Kazuyuki ^d   Nomura, Kazuya ^a,b,c  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d KOBE PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; CLONING; NEUROLOGY;

CYTOKINESIS;

CELLS;

CHONDROITIN; CHONDROITIN SULFATE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; HEPARAN SULFATE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE DEHYDROGENASE; WNT PROTEIN;

RNA;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIVISION; CYTOKINESIS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEATH; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE MUTATION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; CHONDROITIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DISACCHARIDES; GENE DELETION; GENES, LETHAL; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; N-ACETYLGALACTOSAMINYLTRANSFERASES; PHENOTYPE; PROTEOGLYCANS; RNA INTERFERENCE;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ERINACEIDAE;

EID: 0038485622     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01635     Document Type: Article

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