mec-15 encodes an F-box protein required for touch receptor neuron mechanosensation, synapse formation and development

Genetics

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 607-617

  Bounoutas, Alexander ^a   Zheng, Qun ^b   Nonet, Michael L ^b   Chalfie, Martin ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; ASPARTIC ACID; BETA TUBULIN; F BOX PROTEIN; MEC 15 PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 4; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; TRYPTOPHAN; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE E3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MUTANT; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NERVE CELL; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE GROWTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; SENSATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTOGENESIS; TOUCH RECEPTOR NEURON;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; F-BOX PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MECHANORECEPTORS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTATION; NEURONS; P38 MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PHENOTYPE; SYNAPSES; TOUCH; TUBULIN;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 70649107891     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.109.105726     Document Type: Article

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