RNA-binding proteins SOP-2 and SOR-1 form a novel PcG-like complex in C. elegans

Development

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1023-1033

  Zhang, Tingting ^a   Sun, Yinyan ^a   Tian, E ^a   Deng, Hansong ^a   Zhang, Yuxia ^a   Luo, Xin ^a   Cai, Qingchun ^a   Wang, Huayi ^a   Chai, Jijie ^a   Zhang, Hong ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Nuclear bodies; PcG; SAM domian; sor 1

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SOP 2 PROTEIN; SOR 1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL NUCLEUS INCLUSION BODY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE CONTROL; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REPORTER GENE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 33645738577     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.02275     Document Type: Article

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