The ERK MAP kinase cascade mediates tail swelling and a protective response to rectal infection in C. elegans

Current Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 1256-1261

  Nicholas, Hannah R ^a   Hodgkin, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE KINASE 2;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSTIPATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; RECTUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TAIL; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONSTIPATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MAP KINASE KINASE KINASE 2; MAP KINASE KINASE KINASES; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PLASMIDS; RECTUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TAIL;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MICROBACTERIUM; MICROBACTERIUM NEMATOPHILUM; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 3342973834     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2004.07.022     Document Type: Article

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