Cloning of tropomyosins from lobster (Homarus americanus) striated muscles: Fast and slow isoforms may be generated from the same transcript

Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 105-115

  Mykles, Donald L ^a   Cotton, Julie L S ^a   Taniguchi, Hisaaki ^b   Sano, Ken Ichi ^c   Maeda, Yuichiro ^c  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TROPOMYOSIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; FAST MUSCLE; LOBSTER; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SLOW MUSCLE;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEPHROPIDAE; RABBITS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TROPOMYOSIN;

ANIMALIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HOMARUS AMERICANUS; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0031881985     PISSN: 01424319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005352410725     Document Type: Article

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