Discovery and characterization of a conserved pigment dispersing factor-like neuropeptide pathway in Caenorhabditis elegans

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 228-241

  Janssen, Tom ^a   Husson, Steven J ^a   Meelkop, Ellen ^a   Temmerman, Liesbet ^a   Lindemans, Marleen ^a   Verstraelen, Karen ^a   Rademakers, Suzanne ^b   Mertens, Inge ^a   Nitabach, Michael ^c   Jansen, Gert ^a   Schoofs, Liliane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Nematode; Neuropeptide; Pigment dispersing factor

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2; NEUROPEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPTIDOMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROPEPTIDES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; NEMATODA; PROTOSTOMIA;

EID: 70349213289     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: 14714159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2009.06323.x     Document Type: Article

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