Caenorhabditis elegans Heterochromatin protein 1 (HPL-2) links developmental plasticity, longevity and lipid metabolism

Genome Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Meister, Peter ^a,b   Schott, Sonia ^c   Bedet, Cécile ^c   Xiao, Yu ^c   Rohner, Sabine ^a   Bodennec, Selena ^c   Hudry, Bruno ^d   Molin, Laurent ^e   Solari, Florence ^e   Gasser, Susan M ^a   Palladino, Francesca ^c  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e CENTRE DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1; LIPID; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; DAF 2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; DAF-2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; HPL 2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; HPL-2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; INSULIN RECEPTOR; NONHISTONE PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FATE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DIAPAUSE; DOWN REGULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; LIPID METABOLISM; LONGEVITY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; DNA MICROARRAY; ENVIRONMENT; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HERMAPHRODITIC SPECIES; HETEROCHROMATIN; MALE; METABOLISM; MUTATION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; HERMAPHRODITIC ORGANISMS; HETEROCHROMATIN; LIPID METABOLISM; LONGEVITY; MALE; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RECEPTOR, INSULIN; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 83655181462     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2011-12-12-r123     Document Type: Article

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