Alternative splicing of a Caenorhabditis elegans gene produces two novel inhibitory amino acid receptor subunits with identical ligand binding domains but different ion channels

Gene

Volumn 201, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 119-125

  Laughton, David L ^a   Lunt, George G ^a   Wolstenholme, Adrian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Avermectin; Chloride ion channel; Gene duplication; Glutamate receptor; Nematode

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID RECEPTOR; AVERMECTIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; ION CHANNEL; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RECEPTOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHLORIDE CHANNELS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, HELMINTH; GENES, HELMINTH; GRB2 ADAPTOR PROTEIN; ION CHANNELS; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, AMINO ACID; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0030833924     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00436-8     Document Type: Article

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