Somatic sex determination in Caenorhabditis elegans is modulated by SUP-26 repression of tra-2 translation

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

Volumn 107, Issue 42, 2010, Pages 18022-18027

  Mapes, James ^a   Chen, Jeng Ting ^b   Yu, Jau Song ^b   Xue, Ding ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; POLYADENYLIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN TRA 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; GENE CONTROL; GENE REPRESSION; IN VIVO STUDY; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA TRANSLATION; SEX DETERMINATION; SOMATIC CELL; SUP 26 GENE; SUPPRESSOR GENE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 78149234142     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1004513107     Document Type: Article

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