Adipokinetic hormone signaling through the gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor modulates egg-laying in Caenorhabditis elegans

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1642-1647

  Lindemans, Marleen ^a   Liu, Feng ^b   Janssen, Tom ^a   Husson, Steven J ^a   Mertens, Inge ^a   Gade, Gerd ^c   Schoofs, Liliane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

C. Elegans; G protein coupled receptor; molecular evolution; neuroendocrinology; neuropeptide

Indexed keywords

ADIPOKINETIC HORMONE; GONADORELIN RECEPTOR; INSECT HORMONE; NEUROPEPTIDE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; OLIGOPEPTIDE; PRIMER DNA; PYROGLUTAMIC ACID;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL STRAIN HEK293; DATA BASE; DELAYED PUBERTY; DROSOPHILA; EGG LAYING; EMBRYO; EVOLUTION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INSECT; INVERTEBRATE; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; REPRODUCTION; SECOND MESSENGER; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DEUTEROSTOMIA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; METAZOA; PROTOSTOMIA; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; INSECT HORMONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOPEPTIDES; OVUM; PYRROLIDONECARBOXYLIC ACID; RECEPTORS, LHRH; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 58549100926     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0809881106     Document Type: Article

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