The homeodomain protein PAL-1 specifies a lineage-specific regulatory network in the C. elegans embryo

Development

Volumn 132, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1843-1854

  Baugh, L Ryan ^a,c   Hill, Andrew A ^b   Claggett, Julia M ^a   Hill Harfe, Kate ^a,b,d   Wen, Joanne C ^a   Slonim, Donna K ^b,e   Brown, Eugene L ^b   Hunter, Craig P ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Tufts University   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Cell fate specification; Embryonic; Patterning; Regulatory network

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LIGAND; PROTEIN PAL 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT1 PROTEIN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MUTANT; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE CLUSTER; GENE TARGETING; HOX GENE; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; REPORTER GENE; WILD TYPE; ZYGOTE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BLASTOMERES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 18844399324     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01782     Document Type: Article

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