MEC-2 is recruited to the putative mechanosensory complex in C. elegans touch receptor neurons through its stomatin-like domain

Current Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 1888-1896

  Zhang, Shifang ^a   Arnadottir, Johanna ^a   Keller, Charles ^a   Caldwell, Guy A ^a   Yao, C Andrea ^a   Chalfie, Martin ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MEC 2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; MEC 4 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; MEC-2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; MEC-4 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNC 24 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; UNC-24 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; METABOLISM; MISSENSE MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SENSORY RECEPTOR; TOUCH; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, SENSORY; TOUCH;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 7944228880     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2004.10.030     Document Type: Article

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