A Zn-finger/FH2-domain containing protein, FOZI-1, acts redundantly with CeMyoD to specify striated body wall muscle fates in the Caenorhabditis elegans postembryonic mesoderm

Development

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 19-29

  Amin, Nirav M ^a   Hu, Kejin ^a   Pruyne, David ^a   Terzic, Dino ^a   Bretscher, Anthony ^a   Liu, Jun ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Body wall muscle; CEH 20; Cell fate specification; CeMyoD; FH2 domain; Formin; Fozi 1; HlH 1; M lineage; MAB 5; Mesoderm; Myogenesis; Zinc finger

Indexed keywords

ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; FORMIN ZINC FINGER PROTEIN 1; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; MYOD PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN FOZI 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC CODE; MESODERM; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NULL CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MESODERM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33846546676     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.02709     Document Type: Article

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