C. elegans MCM-4 is a general DNA replication and checkpoint component with an epidermis-specific requirement for growth and viability

Developmental Biology

Volumn 350, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 358-369

  Korzelius, Jerome ^a,d   The, Inge ^a   Ruijtenberg, Suzan ^a   Portegijs, Vincent ^a   Xu, Huihong ^c   Horvitz, H Robert ^b   Van den Heuvel, Sander ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Cell cycle; Checkpoint; DNA replication; MCM complex; MCM 4

Indexed keywords

HELICASE; MINICHROMOSOME MAINTENANCE PROTEIN 4;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL CYCLE M PHASE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL LINEAGE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; EPIDERMIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GERM LINE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL; SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 79151484272     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2010.12.009     Document Type: Article

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