PAR-2 is asymmetrically distributed and promotes association of P granules and PAR-1 with the cortex in C. elegans embryos

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 3075-3084

  Boyd, Lynn ^a   Quo, Su ^a   Levitan, Diane ^b,c   Stinchcomb, Dan T ^b,d   Kemphues, Kenneth J ^a  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^d Sirna Therapeutics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell polarity; Microfilament; P granule; Par 1; Par 2; Par 3

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CYCLE; CELL GRANULE; CELL POLARITY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GERM LINE; GONAD; MICROFILAMENT; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BLASTOMERES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MUTATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; RICKETTSIA SP. PAR;

EID: 10344236460     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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