Uncoupling the pleiotropic phenotypes of clk-1 with tRNA missense suppressors in Caenorhabditis elegans

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3976-3985

  Branicky, Robyn ^a   Nguyen, Phuong Anh Thi ^a   Hekimi, Siegfried ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMETHOXYUBIQUINONE HYDROXYLASE; GENOMIC DNA; OXYGENASE; TRANSFER RNA; UBIQUINONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIFESPAN; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORM;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, SUPPRESSOR; LYSINE; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PHENOTYPE; RNA, TRANSFER, GLU; UBIQUINONE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; METAZOA;

EID: 33646583482     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.26.10.3976-3985.2006     Document Type: Article

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