C. elegans PAT-9 is a nuclear zinc finger protein critical for the assembly of muscle attachments

Cell and Bioscience

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Liu, Qian ^a   Jones, Takako I ^a,b   Bachmann, Rebecca A ^a   Meghpara, Mitchell ^a   Rogowski, Lauren ^a   Williams, Benjamin D ^a   Jones, Peter L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b BOSTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Muscle; Pat; Sarcomere; Zinc finger

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84865146725     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20453701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2045-3701-2-18     Document Type: Article

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