LIN-12/Notch signaling instructs postsynaptic muscle arm development by regulating UNC-40/DCC and MADD-2 in Caenorhabditis elegans

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Volumn 2013, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Li, Pengpeng ^a   Collins, Kevin M ^b   Koelle, Michael R ^b   Shen, Kang ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBATE PEROXIDASE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; CALCIUM ION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LIN 12 PROTEIN; LIN 3 PROTEIN; LIN 39 PROTEIN; MADD 2 PROTEIN; NOTCH RECEPTOR; UNC 40 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; APX-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; LIN-12 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SODIUM CHANNEL; TRIM-9 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; UNC-40 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FATE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; EGG LAYING; EPITHELIUM CELL; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MUSCLE ARM DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYNAPSE; TARGET CELL; VULVA; ANIMAL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; INNERVATION; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; MUSCLE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUTATION; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PHENOTYPE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MORPHOGENESIS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLES; MUTATION; NEUROGENESIS; OVIPOSITION; PARACRINE COMMUNICATION; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SODIUM CHANNELS; SYNAPSES; VULVA;

EID: 84878437623     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.00378     Document Type: Article

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