Six and eya promote apoptosis through direct transcriptional activation of the proapoptotic BH3-only gene egl-1 in Caenorhabditis elegans

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 35, 2010, Pages 15479-15484

  Hirose, Takashi ^a   Galvin, Brendan D ^a   Horvitz, H Robert ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell death; Eyes absent; Sine oculis; Transcription

Indexed keywords

BH3 PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN CEH 34; PROTEIN EGL 1; PROTEIN EYA 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL SURVIVAL; GENE EXPRESSION; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; APOPTOSIS; BINDING SITES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL SURVIVAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHARYNX; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASES; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 77957251870     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1010023107     Document Type: Article

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