Intermediate filaments are required for C. elegans epidermal elongation

Developmental Biology

Volumn 267, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 216-229

  Woo, Wei Meng ^a   Goncharov, Alexandr ^a   Jin, Yishi ^a   Chisholm, Andrew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Epidermis; IFA 3; IFB 1; Intermediate filament; Morphogenesis

Indexed keywords

CYTOPLASMIC INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; ISOPROTEIN; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIDERMIS; EPIDERMIS CELL; GENE MUTATION; MORPHOGENESIS; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA INTERFERENCE;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1242317811     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2003.11.007     Document Type: Article

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