FLR-2, the glycoprotein hormone alpha subunit, is involved in the neural control of intestinal functions in Caenorhabditis elegans

Genes to Cells

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1141-1154

  Oishi, Akane ^a   Gengyo Ando, Keiko ^b,c   Mitani, Shohei ^b,c   Mohri Shiomi, Akiko ^a   Kimura, Koutarou D ^a,d,e   Ishihara, Takeshi ^a,d,f   Katsura, Isao ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; HORMONE; LIPID BINDING PROTEIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE BINDING PROTEIN; SECRETORY PROTEIN;

ALPHA CHAIN; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; DELETION MUTANT; GENE MUTATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GROWTH INHIBITION; GROWTH RATE; INTESTINE FUNCTION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLYCOPROTEIN HORMONES, ALPHA SUBUNIT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; INTESTINES; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEURONS; PIGMENTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70349983806     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: 13652443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2443.2009.01341.x     Document Type: Article

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