Microtubules induce self-organization of polarized PAR domains in Caenorhabditis elegans zygotes

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1361-1367

  Motegi, Fumio ^a   Zonies, Seth ^a   Hao, Yingsong ^a   Cuenca, Adrian A ^a   Griffin, Erik ^a   Seydoux, Geraldine ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 1; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 2;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CENTROSOME; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL POLARITY; MICROTUBULES; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PDZ DOMAINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; TIME FACTORS; ZYGOTE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 80455143667     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: 14764679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb2354     Document Type: Article

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