Caenorhabditis elegans PIG-1/MELK acts in a conserved PAR-4/LKB1 polarity pathway to promote asymmetric neuroblast divisions

Genetics

Volumn 193, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 897-909

  Chien, Shih Chieh ^a   Brinkmann, Eva Maria ^a,b   Teuliere, Jerome ^a   Garriga, Gian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE LKB1; PROTEIN MO25; PROTEIN STRAD; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 4; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; HUMAN; NEUROBLAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ASYMMETRIC CELL DIVISION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CELL LINEAGE; CENTROSOME; NEURAL STEM CELLS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; SUIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84876427979     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.112.148106     Document Type: Article

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