A single biochemical activity underlies the pleiotropy of the aging-related protein CLK-1

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Liu, Ju Ling ^a   Yee, Callista ^a   Wang, Ying ^a   Hekimi, Siegfried ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; CLK-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UBIQUINONE;

ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LONGEVITY; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT; PLEIOTROPY;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; GENETIC PLEIOTROPY; LONGEVITY; MITOCHONDRIA; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; UBIQUINONE;

EID: 85018249352     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-00754-z     Document Type: Article

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