Quantitative Differences in Nuclear β-catenin and TCF Pattern Embryonic Cells in C. elegans

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Zacharias, Amanda L ^a   Walton, Travis ^a   Preston, Elicia ^a   Murray, John Isaac ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; FRIZZLED PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN POP 1; PROTEIN SYS 1; T CELL FACTOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN; POP-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; SYS-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; GENE REPRESSION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOICHIOMETRY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL NUCLEUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; BODY PATTERNING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; TCF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EID: 84946599760     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005585     Document Type: Article

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