Direct regulation of egl-1 of programmed cell death by the Hox protein MAB-5 and CEH-20, a C. elegans homolog of Pbx1

Development

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 641-650

  Liu, Huarui ^a   Strauss, Tamara J ^a   Potts, Malia B ^a   Cameron, Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Hox genes; Programmed cell death

Indexed keywords

BH3 PROTEIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; HOX PROTEIN; PROTEIN CEH 20; PROTEIN EGL 1; PROTEIN MAB 5; PROTEIN PBX1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HOX GENE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL LINEAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 33645094394     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.02234     Document Type: Article

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