Molecular cloning of a rhodopsin gene from salamander rods

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1907-1913

  Chen, Ning ^a   Ma, Jian Xing ^a   Corson, D Wesley ^a   Hazard, E Starr ^a   Crouch, Rosalie K ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambystoma; cDNA; cloning; reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT PCR); rhodopsin

Indexed keywords

RHODOPSIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA ROD; SALAMANDER;

AMBYSTOMA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RANA PIPIENS; RETINA; RHODOPSIN; RODS (RETINA); XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0029788814     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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