gem-1 encodes an SLC16 monocarboxylate transporter-related protein that functions in parallel to the gon-2 TRPM channel during gonad development in Caenorhabditis elegans

Genetics

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 581-591

  Kemp, Benedict J ^a,c   Church, Diane L ^a   Hatzold, Julia ^a,d   Conradt, Barbara ^b   Lambie, Eric J ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Marquette University   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL M;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEM 1 GENE; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CALCIUM; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, HELMINTH; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, SUPPRESSOR; GONADS; ION CHANNELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOCARBOXYLIC ACID TRANSPORTERS; MUTATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 62449156089     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.108.094870     Document Type: Article

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