C. elegans pharyngeal morphogenesis requires both de novo synthesis of pyrimidines and synthesis of heparan sulfate proteoglycans

Developmental Biology

Volumn 296, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 409-420

  Franks, Dawn M ^a   Izumikawa, Tomomi ^b   Kitagawa, Hiroshi ^b   Sugahara, Kazuyuki ^b   Okkema, Peter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b KOBE PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

C. elegans; CAD; de novo pyrimidine synthesis; Organ morphogenesis; Pharynx; Proteoglycans; rib genes; sqv genes

Indexed keywords

CAD PROTEIN; DISACCHARIDE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEOHEPARAN SULFATE; PYRIMIDINE; SUGAR; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYPOTHESIS; LETHALITY; MORPHOGENESIS; MOTHER; MUSCLE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 33746931270     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2006.06.008     Document Type: Article

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