Using RNA interference to identify specific modifiers of a temperature-sensitive, embryonic-lethal mutation in the Caenorhabditis elegans ubiquitin-like Nedd8 protein modification pathway E1-activating gene rfl-1

Genetics

Volumn 182, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1035-1049

  Dorfman, Marc ^a   Gomes, José Eduardo ^a,b   O'Rourke, Sean ^a   Bowerman, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULLIN; GENE PRODUCT; GLYCOPROTEIN E1; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NEDD8 PROTEIN; RFL1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DEPLETION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; ENHANCER REGION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; LETHAL MUTANT; LETHALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPPRESSOR GENE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENES, LETHAL; MUTATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TEMPERATURE; UBIQUITIN-ACTIVATING ENZYMES; UBIQUITINS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 70350180290     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.109.104885     Document Type: Article

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