The evidence for G-protein-coupled receptors and heterotrimeric G proteins in protozoa and ancestral metazoa

NeuroSignals

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 98-108

  New, David C ^a   Wong, Joseph T Y ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

G protein; Metazoa; Protozoa; Receptor

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR;

ALPHA CHAIN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; METAZOON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTOZOON; REVIEW; SECOND MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; HYDRA; PORIFERA; PROTOZOA; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; SCYPHOZOA; SEA ANEMONES;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; METAZOA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0031749413     PISSN: 1424862X     EISSN: 14248638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000014535     Document Type: Article

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