The Caenorhabditis elegans homologue of the proto-oncogene ect-2 positively regulates RAS signalling during vulval development

EMBO Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1169-1175

  Canevascini, Stefano ^a,b   Marti, Mark ^a   Fröhli, Erika ^a   Hajnal, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Development; Guanine nucleotide exchange factor; RAS; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN ECT 2; RAS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL FATE; CYTOKINESIS; EPISTASIS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENES, HELMINTH; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTO-ONCOGENES; RAS PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VULVA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 28544436811     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400574     Document Type: Article

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