LIN-61, one of two Caenorhabditis elegans malignant-brain-tumor-repeat- containing proteins, acts with the DRM and NuRD-like protein complexes in vulval development but not in certain other biological processes

Genetics

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 255-271

  Harrison, Melissa M ^a,b   Lu, Xiaowei ^a,c   Horvitz, H Robert ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; LIN 61 GENE; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN STABILITY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOME; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN BINDING; THERMODYNAMICS; VULVA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; NURD COMPLEX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENES, HELMINTH; GENOME; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BINDING; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; THERMODYNAMICS; VULVA;

EID: 34548587361     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.106.069633     Document Type: Article

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