A survey of the primary structure and the interspecies conservation of I-band titin's elastic elements in vertebrates

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 122, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 206-215

  Witt, Christian C ^a,b   Olivieri, Nicoletta ^c   Centner, Thomas ^c   Kolmerer, Bernhard ^c   Millevoi, Stefania ^c   Morell, Jane ^c   Labeit, Dietmar ^c   Labeit, Siegfried ^c   Jockusch, Harald ^b   Pastore, Annalisa ^d  

^a MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Molecular evolution; Muscle elasticity; PEVK and tandem IG domains; Titin (connectin)

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ELASTICITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN STRUCTURE; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031715047     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.1998.3993     Document Type: Article

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