Closing and characterization of cDNAs encoding putative glutamate transporters from Caenorhabditis elegans and Onchocerca volvulus

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 41-53

  Radice, Anthony D ^a   Lustigman, Sara ^a  

^a NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; C. elegans; Glutamate; Glutamate transporters; Molecular cloning; O. volvulus

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUTAMIC ACID; ABC TRANSPORTER; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; HELMINTH DNA; HELMINTH RNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; EXON; GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; INTRON; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; VERTEBRATA;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM X-AG; ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, HELMINTH; EXONS; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, HELMINTH; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; RNA, HELMINTH; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0030222470     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-6851(96)02667-9     Document Type: Article

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