Allele-specific suppressors of lin-1(R175Opal) identify functions of MOC-3 and DPH-3 in tRNA modification complexes in Caenorhabditis elegans

Genetics

Volumn 185, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1235-1247

  Kim, Sunhong ^a,c   Johnson, Wade ^a,d   Chen, Changchun ^b   Sewell, Aileen K ^a   Byström, Anders S ^b   Han, Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB)   (South Korea)

^d R and D Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DPH 3 PROTEIN; LIN 1 PROTEIN; MOC 3 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUSION GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; STOP CODON; TRANSGENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 78249261631     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.110.118406     Document Type: Article

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