A Genetic Screen for Neurite Outgrowth Mutants in Caenorhabditis elegans Reveals a New Function for the F-box Ubiquitin Ligase Component LIN-23

Genetics

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1253-1267

  Mehta, Nehal ^a   Loria, Paula M ^a   Hobert, Oliver ^a  

^a College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

F BOX PROTEIN; PROTEIN LIN 23; SCF E3 UBIQUITIN LIGASE; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELISM; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENETIC SCREENING; MOTONEURON; MUTANT; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SYNAPTOGENESIS; UBIQUITINATION; VENTRAL ROOT;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AXONS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYTOPLASM; F-BOX PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, HELMINTH; GENETIC SCREENING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURITES; NEURONS; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 1542355503     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.166.3.1253     Document Type: Article

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