Evolutionarily conserved WNK and Ste20 kinases are essential for acute volume recovery and survival after hypertonic shrinkage in Caenorhabditis elegans

American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology

Volumn 293, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Choe, Keith P ^a   Strange, Kevin ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell volume regulation; Osmoregulation; Osmotic stress

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN KINASE WNK1; STE20 KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL SURVIVAL; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSMOREGULATION; OSMOTIC STRESS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INTESTINES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RNA INTERFERENCE; SALINE SOLUTION, HYPERTONIC; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA; METAZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34548761512     PISSN: 03636143     EISSN: 15221563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00126.2007     Document Type: Article

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