Transcriptional regulation and stabilization of left-right neuronal identity in C. elegans

Genes and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 345-358

  Lesch, Bluma J ^a   Gehrke, Andrew R ^b   Bulyk, Martha L ^b,c   Bargmann, Cornelia I ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity Dependent gene expression; cGMP dependent protein kinase; Homeodomain; Olfactory development; Transcriptional maintenance; Transcriptional repression

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYCLIC GMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NSY 7 PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; LARVA; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MUTANT; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CYCLIC GMP; DNA, HELMINTH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 59949083141     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1763509     Document Type: Article

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