Phosphorylation state of a Tob/BTG protein, FOG-3, regulates initiation and maintenance of the Caenorhabditis elegans sperm fate program

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

Volumn 108, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 9125-9130

  Lee, Myon Hee ^a,b   Kim, Kyung Won ^a   Morgan, Clinton T ^a   Morgan, Dyan E ^a   Kimble, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Germline; Sex determination; Sperm oocyte decision

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; FOG 3 PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FATE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SEX DETERMINATION; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENOTYPE; MALE; MUTATION; OOCYTES; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79959341475     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1106027108     Document Type: Article

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