Cell excitability necessary for male mating behavior in Caenorhabditis elegans is coordinated by interactions between big current and ether-A-go-go family K + channels

Genetics

Volumn 190, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1025-1041

  le Boeuf, Brigitte ^a   Rene Garcia, L ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL HERG; PROTEIN EGL 2; PROTEIN SLO 1; PROTEIN UNC 103; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOTYPE; MALE; MATING; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; ETHER-A-GO-GO POTASSIUM CHANNELS; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ORDER; LARGE-CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNELS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUTATION; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84858257959     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.111.137455     Document Type: Article

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