Efficient generation of transgenic reporter strains and analysis of expression patterns in Caenorhabditis elegans using library MosSCI

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 245, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 925-936

  Kaymak, Ebru ^a   Farley, Brian M ^b   Hay, Samantha A ^c   Li, Chihua ^a   Ho, Samantha ^a   Hartman, Daniel J ^d   Ryder, Sean P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LABORATORY CORPORATION OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

3 UTR; atg 4.2; C. elegans; cul 4; DAZ 1; ets 4; mex 3; MosSCI; OMA 1; posttranscriptional regulation; RNA binding proteins; set 2; set 6

Indexed keywords

ATG 4.2 PROTEIN; CULLIN; CULLIN 4; CWN 1 PROTEIN; HBL 1 PROTEIN; LIN 26 PROTEIN; MATERNAL MESSENGER RNA; MBK 2 PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MEX 3 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SET 2 PROTEIN; SET 6 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; USP 14 PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA INTEGRATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONAD; MALE; MOS1 MEDIATED SINGLE COPY INTEGRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84981165925     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.24426     Document Type: Article

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