The PAM-1 aminopeptidase regulates centrosome positioning to ensure anterior-posterior axis specification in one-cell C. elegans embryos

Developmental Biology

Volumn 344, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 992-1000

  Fortin, Samantha M ^a   Marshall, Sara L ^a   Jaeger, Eva C ^a   Greene, Pauline E ^a   Brady, Lauren K ^a   Isaac, R Elwyn ^b   Schrandt, Jennifer C ^a   Brooks, Darren R ^c   Lyczak, Rebecca ^a  

^a URSINUS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Centrosome; PAR proteins; Polarity; Puromycin sensitive aminopeptidase

Indexed keywords

AMINOPEPTIDASE; DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PAM 1 AMINOPEPTIDASE; PROTEIN DHC 1; PROTEIN PAR 1; PROTEIN PAR 6; PUROMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CENTROSOME; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 77955268789     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2010.06.016     Document Type: Article

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