Conditional gene expression and RNAi using MEC-8-dependent splicing in C. elegans

Nature Methods

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 407-411

  Calixto, Andrea ^a   Ma, Charles ^a,b,c   Chalfie, Martin ^a  

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

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c Phalanx Biotech Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN MEC 2; PROTEIN MEC 2A; PROTEIN MEC 8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE CASSETTE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; INTRON; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; INTRONS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TEMPERATURE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 77952239526     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1445     Document Type: Article

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