Cell Polarity and the Cytoskeleton in the Caenorhabditis Elegans Zygote

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue , 2003, Pages 221-249

  Schneider, Stephan Q ^a   Bowerman, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Cell cortex; Cell polarity; Microfilaments; Microtubules; Mitotic spindle; PAR proteins

Indexed keywords

APC PROTEIN; CYTOCHALASIN D; DYNACTIN; DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MYOSIN; NOCODAZOLE; NOTCH RECEPTOR; PROFILIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN 14 3 3; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN PAR; PROTEIN PAR 1; PROTEIN PAR 2; PROTEIN PAR 3; PROTEIN PAR 4; PROTEIN PAR 5; PROTEIN PAR 6; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA CHAIN; ANAPHASE; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POLARITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CENTROMERE; CENTROSOME; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOSKELETON; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETICS; GERM CELL; HERMAPHRODITISM; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MAMMAL CELL; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MICROFILAMENT; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY; OVULATION; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUCLEUS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVIEW; RNA BINDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERM; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL POLARITY; CENTROSOME; CYTOSKELETON; FERTILIZATION; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; ZYGOTE;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA; NEMATODA; RICKETTSIA SP. PAR;

EID: 0346155807     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.37.110801.142443     Document Type: Review

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