The lateral signal for LIN-12/Notch in C. elegans vulval development comprises redundant secreted and transmembrane DSL proteins

Developmental Cell

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 183-192

  Chen, Ning ^a   Greenwald, Iva ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; LIGAND; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NOTCH RECEPTOR; PROTEIN APX 1; PROTEIN DSL 1; PROTEIN LAG 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VULVA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTORS; VULVA;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0442294193     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1534-5807(04)00021-8     Document Type: Article

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