A sea urchin gene encoding dystrophin-related proteins

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 581-588

  Wang, Jun ^a   Pansky, Avi ^a   Venuti, Judith M ^b   Yaffe, David ^a   Nudel, Uri ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYSTROPHIN; GENE PRODUCT; UTROPHIN;

ARTICLE; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENE; GENE ISOLATION; GENE STRUCTURE; INTRON; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEA URCHIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA; DYSTROPHIN; EXONS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEA URCHINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TORPEDO; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UTROPHIN;

ECHINOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031900928     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/7.4.581     Document Type: Article

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