SUMO modification is required for in vivo Hox gene regulation by the Caenorhabditis elegans Polycomb group protein SOP-2

Nature Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 507-511

  Zhang, Hong ^a   Smolen, Gromoslaw A ^a   Palmer, Rachel ^a   Christoforou, Andrea ^a   Van Den Heuvel, Sander ^a   Haber, Daniel A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELMINTH PROTEIN; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN SOP 2; PROTEIN UBC9; SUMO PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL NUCLEUS INCLUSION BODY; CHIMERA; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HOX GENE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; NEURONS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SUMO-1 PROTEIN; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES; UBIQUITIN-CONJUGATING ENZYMES;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; NEMATODA; VERMES;

EID: 2442439113     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1336     Document Type: Article

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