The CRAL/TRIO and GOLD domain protein CGR-1 promotes induction of vulval cell fates in Caenorhabditis elegans and interacts genetically with the ras signaling pathway

Genetics

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 929-942

  Goldstein, Jessica L ^a   Glossip, Danielle ^a   Nayak, Sudhir ^a   Kornfeld, Kerry ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN CGR 1; RAS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FATE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VULVA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LARVA; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RAS PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VULVA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33644772516     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.035550     Document Type: Article

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