Pax2/5/8 proteins promote cell survival in C. elegans

Development

Volumn 133, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 4193-4202

  Park, DonHa ^a   Jia, Hongtao ^a   Rajakumar, Vandana ^a   Chamberlin, Helen M ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Caenorhabditis elegans; Ced 9; Egl 38; Pax 2; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; CED 9 PROTEIN; EGL 38 PROTEIN; PROTEIN BCL 2; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX8;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERM LINE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SOMATIC CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; B-CELL-SPECIFIC ACTIVATOR PROTEIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; MOSAICISM; OPERON; PAX2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 33751533482     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.02614     Document Type: Article

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