AFF-1, a FOS-1-Regulated Fusogen, Mediates Fusion of the Anchor Cell in C. elegans

Developmental Cell

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 683-698

  Sapir, Amir ^a   Choi, Jaebok ^b   Leikina, Evgenia ^c   Avinoam, Ori ^a   Valansi, Clari ^a   Chernomordik, Leonid V ^c   Newman, Anna P ^b   Podbilewicz, Benjamin ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

CELLBIO; DEVBIO

Indexed keywords

AFF 1 PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; FUSOGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOS 1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FUSION; CELL INVASION; DEVELOPMENT; DISULFIDE BOND; EMBRYO; EPITHELIUM CELL; MUTANT; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SYNCYTIUM; UTERINE TUBE; VULVA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL FUSION; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; INSECTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VULVA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 34247568597     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2007.03.003     Document Type: Article

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