The conserved kinase UNC-51 acts with VAB-8 and UNC-14 to regulate axon outgrowth in C. elegans

Development

Volumn 131, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 5991-6000

  Lai, Tina ^a   Garriga, Gian ^a  

^a University of California Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

Axon guidance; C. elegans; UNC 14; UNC 51; VAB 8

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; PROTEIN UNC 14; PROTEIN UNC 51; PROTEIN VAB 8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; PEPTIDES; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSFECTION; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA;

EID: 12344309528     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01457     Document Type: Article

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