The Caenorhabditis elegans DDX-23, a homolog of yeast splicing factor PRP28, is required for the sperm-oocyte switch and differentiation of various cell types

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 237, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2367-2377

  Konishi, Takafumi ^a   Uodome, Nobuko ^a   Sugimoto, Asako ^a  

^a RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research   (Japan)

Author keywords

C. elegans; DEAD H box proteins; Differentiation; Gametogenesis; Splicing

Indexed keywords

DDX 23 PROTEIN; DEAD BOX PROTEIN; PRP28 PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TYPE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GERM CELL; HERMAPHRODITISM; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; ORTHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL PROLIFERATION; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GAMETOGENESIS; HUMANS; LARVA; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OOCYTES; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 51549094161     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.21649     Document Type: Article

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