C. elegans MOM-5/Frizzled functions in MOM-2/Wnt-independent cell polarity and is localized asymmetrically prior to cell division

Current Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 2252-2258

  Park, Frederick D ^a,b   Tenlen, Jennifer R ^a,b   Priess, James R ^a,b,c  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MOM 5 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; MOM-5 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; POP 1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; POP-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; PRIMER DNA; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CYCLE; CELL POLARITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE; CELL POLARITY; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 11144340990     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2004.12.019     Document Type: Article

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