Analysis of eight cDNAs and six genes for intermediate filament (IF) proteins in the cephalochordate Branchiostoma reveals differences in the IF multigene families of lower chordates and the vertebrates

Gene

Volumn 211, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 361-373

  Riemer, Dieter ^a   Karabinos, Anton ^a   Weber, Klaus ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aunphioxus; Invertebrates; Metazoa; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; KERATIN; LAMIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHORDATA; EPIDERMIS; EPITHELIUM; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; INTRON; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPINAL CORD; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; CYTOPLASM; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VERTEBRATES;

ANIMALIA; BRANCHIOSTOMA; CHORDATA; INVERTEBRATA; METAZOA; PROTOSTOMIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032510825     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00151-6     Document Type: Article

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