Involvement of fatty acid pathways and cortical interaction of the pronuclear complex in Caenorhabditis elegans embryonic polarity

BMC Developmental Biology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-15

  Rappleye, Chad A ^b   Tagawa, Akiko ^c   Le Bot, Nathalie ^d   Ahringer, Julie ^d   Aroian, Raffi V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYL COENZYME A CARBOXYLASE; FATTY ACID; FATTY ACID SYNTHASE; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 2; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 3; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE FERRIHEMOPROTEIN REDUCTASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CATALYSIS; CELL POLARITY; CENTROSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO POLARITY; GENE; GENE EMB 8; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE POD 2; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPOGENESIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC FRAGILITY; PRONUCLEUS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; RICKETTSIA SP. PAR;

EID: 2942696323     PISSN: 1471213X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-213X-3-8     Document Type: Article

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