Wnt signaling drives WRM-1/β-catenin asymmetries in early C. elegans embryos

Genes and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 1749-1754

  Nakamura, Kuniaki ^a   Kim, Soyoung ^a   Ishidate, Takao ^a   Bei, Yanxia ^a   Pang, Kaming ^a   Shirayama, Masaki ^a   Trzepacz, Chris ^a   Brownell, Daniel R ^b   Mello, Craig C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Catenin; Asymmetric cell division; C. elegans; Nuclear export; wnt; wrm 1

Indexed keywords

AXIN; BETA CATENIN; EXPORTIN 1; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; REAGENT; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA ACTIVATED KINASE 1; WNT PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL POLARITY; EMBRYO; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL POLARITY; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; WNT PROTEINS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 23744494409     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1323705     Document Type: Article

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