Characterization of the Huntington's disease (HD) gene homolog in the zebrafish Danio rerio

Gene

Volumn 217, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 117-125

  Karlovich, Chris A ^a   John, Rosalind M ^a,b   Ramirez, Lucia ^a   Stainier, Didier Y R ^c   Myers, Richard M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WELLCOME CRC INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

3' Untranslated region; Embryogenesis; Protein alignment; Sequence variation; Trinucleotide repeat

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUTAMINE; PROLINE; PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXON; GENE SEQUENCE; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; START CODON; TATA BOX; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FISHES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RATS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; ZEBRAFISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032517139     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00342-4     Document Type: Article

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