Interspecific comparisons reveal conserved features of the Drosophila Toll protein

Gene

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 223-228

  Yamagata, Masahito ^a   Merlie, John P ^a   Sanes, Joshua R ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

grasshopper; insect; Interleukin 1 receptor; leucine rich repeats; MyD88 transcript; signal transduction

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN RECEPTOR; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; GENE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; ORTHOPTERA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; GENES, INSECT; GRASSHOPPERS; INSECT HORMONES; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0028278884     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(94)90760-9     Document Type: Article

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