Semaphorin controls epidermal morphogenesis by stimulating mRNA translation via eIF2α in Caenorhabditis elegans

Genes and Development

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1025-1036

  Nukazuka, Akira ^a   Fujisawa, Hajime ^a   Inada, Toshifumi ^a   Oda, Yoichi ^a   Takagi, Shin ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Cofilin; eIF2; Epidermal morphogenesis; mRNA translation; Semaphorin

Indexed keywords

ACTIN DEPOLYMERIZING FACTOR; COFILIN; INITIATION FACTOR 2ALPHA; MESSENGER RNA; PLEXIN; SEMAPHORIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDERMAL MORPHOGENESIS; GENE REPRESSION; MALE; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RNA TRANSLATION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ACTIN DEPOLYMERIZING FACTORS; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; EIF-2 KINASE; EPIDERMIS; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2; MALE; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MORPHOGENESIS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SEMAPHORINS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 42149187018     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1644008     Document Type: Article

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