Spindle assembly checkpoint gene mdf-1 regulates germ cell proliferation in response to nutrition signals in C. elegans

EMBO Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1085-1096

  Watanabe, Sonoko ^a   Yamamoto, Takaharu G ^a   Kitagawa, Risa ^a  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Nutrition signals; Spindle assembly checkpoint

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN AKT1; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN MAD1; PROTEIN MDF1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GERM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL PROLIFERATION; FOOD; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GERM CELLS; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; LARVA; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THREONINE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 41949089311     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2008.32     Document Type: Article

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