The zinc-finger protein SEA-2 regulates larval developmental timing and adult lifespan in C. elegans

Development

Volumn 138, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2059-2068

  Huang, Xinxin ^a   Zhang, Hui ^a   Zhang, Hong ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Aging; C. elegans; daf 16; daf 2; Heterochronic genes; lin 28; sea 2

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN SEA 2; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DAF 16; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AGING; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LIFESPAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; LARVA; LONGEVITY; MALE; MUTATION; RECEPTOR, INSULIN; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, HELMINTH; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; X CHROMOSOME; ZINC FINGERS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 79955563685     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.057109     Document Type: Article

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