Cloning and characterization of the actin-encoding gene of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Gene

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 117-121

  Sugase, Yasuko ^a   Hirono, Masafumi ^a   Kindle, Karen L ^b   Kamiya, Ritsu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti actin antibody; Flagellar actin; Flagellar dynein; Volvox carteri actin

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; GENE NUMBER; GENE STRUCTURE; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; VOLVOX CARTERI;

EID: 0030053332     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(95)00711-3     Document Type: Article

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