Multiple RNA-binding proteins function combinatorially to control the soma-restricted expression pattern of the E3 ligase subunit ZIF-1

Developmental Biology

Volumn 363, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 388-398

  Oldenbroek, Marieke ^a   Robertson, Scott M ^a   Guven Ozkan, Tugba ^a,b   Gore, Steven ^a   Nishi, Yuichi ^a,c   Lin, Rueyling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Embryos; Germline; MEX 3; MEX 5 6; PIE 1; POS 1; SPN 4; Translational repression; Zif 1

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; PROTEIN MEX 3; PROTEIN MEX 5; PROTEIN MEX 6; PROTEIN POS 1; PROTEIN SPN 4; PROTEIN ZIF 1; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE E3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE; GERM LINE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ZIF 3 GENE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84857124037     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2012.01.002     Document Type: Article

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