The ELT-2 GATA-factor and the global regulation of transcription in the C. elegans intestine

Developmental Biology

Volumn 302, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 627-645

  McGhee, James D ^a   Sleumer, Monica C ^b   Bilenky, Mikhail ^b   Wong, Kim ^b   McKay, Sheldon J ^b   Goszczynski, Barbara ^a   Tian, Helen ^a   Krich, Natisha D ^a   Khattra, Jaswinder ^b   Holt, Robert A ^b   Baillie, David L ^c   Kohara, Yuji ^d   Marra, Marco A ^b   Jones, Steven J M ^b   Moerman, Donald G ^e   Robertson, A Gordon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

C. elegans; ELT 2; GATA factor; Intestine; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

ALANYLHISTIDYLTHREONYLGLYCYLALANYLTHREONYLALANYLALANYLARGINYLARGININE; ARGININE DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN ELT 2; PROTEIN ELT 4; PROTEIN ELT 7; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HYDROLYSIS; INTESTINE; INTESTINE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SERIAL ANALYSIS OF GENE EXPRESSION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 33846818720     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2006.10.024     Document Type: Article

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