Caenorhabditis elegans p97 controls germline-specific sex determination by controlling the TRA-1 level in a CUL-2-dependent manner

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 122, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 3663-3672

  Sasagawa, Yohei ^a,e   Otani, Mieko ^b   Higashitani, Nahoko ^c   Higashitani, Atsushi ^c   Sato, Ken ^d   Ogura, Teru ^a   Yamanaka, Kunitoshi ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOBE GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research   (Japan)

Author keywords

AAA family; C. elegans; P97 Cdc48p; Sex determination; TRA 1; Ubiquitin ligase

Indexed keywords

PROTEASOME; PROTEIN CUL 2; PROTEIN P97; PROTEIN TRA 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE E3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; HERMAPHRODITISM; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROSCOPY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEX DETERMINATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CULLIN PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GAMETOGENESIS; GERM CELLS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; OOCYTES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SPERMATOZOA; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 70350349890     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.052415     Document Type: Article

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