Spatial regulation of lag-2 transcription during vulval precursor cell fate patterning in caenorhabditis elegans

Genetics

Volumn 188, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 847-858

  Zhang, Xinyong ^a   Greenwald, Iva ^b  

^a Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics ^*  (United States)

^b College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN LAG 2; PROTEIN LIN 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ELK 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOACCUMULATION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VULVAL PRECURSOR CELL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VULVA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 80051498826     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.111.128389     Document Type: Article

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