Distinct roles of the Pumilio and FBF translational repressors during C. elegans vulval development

Development

Volumn 133, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 3461-3471

  Walser, Claudia B ^a   Battu, Gopal ^a   Hoier, Erika Fröhli ^a   Hajnal, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Pumilio; Signal transduction; Translational control; Vulva

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; FEM 3 BINDING FACTOR; FEM 3 BINDING FACTOR 1; FEM 3 BINDING FACTOR 2; HELMINTH PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN PUMILIO; PROTEIN PUMILIO 8; RAS PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE MUTATION; GERM LINE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA TRANSLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; VULVA;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VULVA;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 33749422503     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.02496     Document Type: Article

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