Components of the transcriptional mediator complex are required for asymmetric cell division in C. elegans

Development

Volumn 132, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1885-1893

  Yoda, Akinori ^a,b   Kouike, Hiroko ^a,c,d   Okano, Hideyuki ^a,c,d   Sawa, Hitoshi ^a,c,e  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asymmetric cell division; C. elegans; Mediator; Wnt

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; HOX PROTEIN; PROTEIN DPY22; PROTEIN LET19; PROTEIN LET425; PROTEIN MED12; PROTEIN MED13; PROTEIN SUR2; PROTEIN TLP1; PROTEIN TRAP240; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL FUSION; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CELL FUSION; CELL LINEAGE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE COMPONENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WNT PROTEINS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 18844415548     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01776     Document Type: Article

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