Antagonistic Smad transcription factors control the dauer/non-dauer switch in C. elegans

Development

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 477-485

  Park, Donha ^a   Estevez, Annette ^b,c   Riddle, Donald L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Dauer formation; TGF signaling

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; PROTEIN LAG 2; RECEPTOR REGULATED SMAD PROTEIN; SMAD PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DAF 14; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DAF 3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DAF 7; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DAF 8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAUER LARVA; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GERM LINE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LARVA; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MEIOSIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SMAD PROTEINS; SMAD PROTEINS, RECEPTOR-REGULATED; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 74349123142     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.043752     Document Type: Article

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