Coordinated regulation of cholinergic motor neuron traits through a conserved terminal selector gene

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 205-214

  Kratsios, Paschalis ^a   Stolfi, Alberto ^b   Levine, Michael ^b   Hobert, Oliver ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANS ACTING FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR UNC 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHOLINE; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINERGIC NEURONS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTOR NEURONS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84856254786     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2989     Document Type: Article

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