GLD-3 and control of the mitosis/meiosis decision in the germline of Caenorhabditis elegans

Genetics

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 147-160

  Eckmann, Christian R ^a,b   Crittenden, Sarah L ^a   Suh, Nayoung ^a   Kimble, Judith ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^c Department of Biochemistry   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; POLYNUCLEOTIDE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN FBF; PROTEIN GLD 2; PROTEIN GLD 3; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERM LINE; HOMOZYGOSITY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NOS3 GENE; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPERM; WORM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE COMPONENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERM CELLS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYNUCLEOTIDE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 3A;

EID: 5144228745     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.029264     Document Type: Article

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