OOC-3, a novel putative transmembrane protein required for establishment of cortical domains and spindle orientation in the P1 blastomere of C. elegans embryos

Development

Volumn 127, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 2063-2073

  Pichler, Silke ^a,b   Gönczy, Pierre ^a,b   Schnabel, Heinke ^c   Pozniakowski, Andrei ^a   Ashford, Anthony ^a   Schnabel, Ralf ^c   Hyman, Anthony A ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asymmetric division; C. elegans; Cortical domain; Endoplasmic reticulum; ooc 3; PAR protein; Polarity; Spindle orientation

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 2; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 3;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELL POLARITY; CYTOPLASM; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; LETHAL MUTANT; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLASTOMERES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA; RICKETTSIA SP. PAR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 3A; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 17144463807     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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