Control of body size by SMA-5, a homolog of MAP kinase BMK1/ERK5, in C. elegans

Development

Volumn 132, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 3175-3184

  Watanabe, Naoharu ^a   Nagamatsu, Yasuko ^a   Gengyo Ando, Keiko ^b   Mitani, Shohei ^b   Ohshima, Yasumi ^a,c  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SOJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body size; C. elegans; MAP kinase; SMA 5

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 7; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN SMA 5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL COUNT; CELL CYCLE; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENOTYPE; INTESTINE; INTESTINE CELL; MUSCLE; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL ENLARGEMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 7; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 23844513060     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01895     Document Type: Article

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