The C. elegans Polycomb gene sop-2 encodes an RNA binding protein

Molecular Cell

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 841-847

  Zhang, Hong ^a   Christoforou, Andrea ^a   Aravind, L ^b   Emmons, Scott W ^c   Van Den Heuvel, Sander ^a   Haber, Daniel A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; PROTEIN SOP 2; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL NUCLEUS INCLUSION BODY; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; HOX GENE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA BINDING;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, HOMEOBOX; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 2942674779     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2004.06.001     Document Type: Article

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