Control of sex-specific apoptosis in C. elegans by the BarH homeodomain protein CEH-30 and the transcriptional repressor UNC-37/Groucho

Genes and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 3195-3207

  Peden, Erin ^a   Kimberly, Elizabeth ^a   Gengyo Ando, Keiko ^b,c   Mitani, Shohei ^b,c   Xue, Ding ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; C. elegans; ceh 30; Sex specific; Transcriptional regulation; unc 37 Groucho

Indexed keywords

BARH HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GROUCHO; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR UNC 37; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DEATH; CELL FATE; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; INTRON; NERVE CELL; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CASPASES; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; POU DOMAIN FACTORS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; X CHROMOSOME;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; METAZOA;

EID: 36849006499     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1607807     Document Type: Article

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