METT-10, a putative methyltransferase, inhibits germ cell proliferative fate in Caenorhabditis elegans

Genetics

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 233-247

  Dorsett, Maia ^a   Westlund, Bethany ^a,b   Schedl, Tim ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Cambria Pharmaceuticals Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENE PRODUCT; GLUCAGON LIKE PEPTIDE 1; METHYLTRANSFERASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE METT 10; NOTCH RECEPTOR; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CATALYSIS; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL FATE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TYPE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA STRUCTURE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GERM CELL; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HEAT SENSITIVITY; HERMAPHRODITISM; INHIBITION KINETICS; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULL ALLELE; PACHYTENE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; SOMATIC MUTATION; TUMOR GROWTH; VULVA; WILD TYPE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; MALE; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASMS; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 70350139886     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.109.105270     Document Type: Article

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