Cloning and characterization of BS-cadherin, a novel cadherin from the colonial urochordate Botryllus schlosseri

Gene

Volumn 200, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 117-123

  Levi, L ^a   Douek, J ^a   Osman, M ^a   Bosch, T C G ^b   Rinkevich, B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell adhesion; Differential display of mRNA technique; Genomic library; Invertebrate; Nucleotide and amino acid sequence

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; UVOMORULIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHORDATA; EVOLUTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CADHERINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOMIC LIBRARY; GENOTYPE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 0030810323     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00391-0     Document Type: Article

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