Two very long chain fatty acid acyl-CoA synthetase genes, acs-20 and acs-22, have roles in the cuticle surface barrier in Caenorhabditis elegans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Kage Nakadai, Eriko ^a,c   Kobuna, Hiroyuki ^a,c   Kimura, Masako ^b   Gengyo Ando, Keiko ^a,c   Inoue, Takao ^b,c   Arai, Hiroyuki ^b,c   Mitani, Shohei ^a,c  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID TRANSPORTER 4; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID COENZYME A LIGASE; SPHINGOMYELIN; VERY LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID;

ACS 20 GENE; ACS 22 GENE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CUTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MICROSCOPY; MUTANT; NEWBORN DEATH; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKIN PROTECTION; STRATUM CORNEUM; TRANSGENE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COENZYME A LIGASES; FATTY ACID TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MUTATION; SPHINGOMYELINS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 77749311463     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008857     Document Type: Article

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