Cloning of a β1 tubulin cDNA from an insect endocrine gland: Developmental and hormone-induced changes in mRNA expression

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 141, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 141-151

  Rybczynski, Robert ^a   Gilbert, Lawrence I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

tubulin; Ecdysteroid; Juevenile hormone; Prothoracicotropic hormone; Transcription

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ECDYSTEROID; ECDYSTERONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTHORACICOTROPIC HORMONE; BETA1 TUBULIN PROTEIN, MANDUCA; ETHYL-3,7,11-TRIMETHYL-2,4-DODECADIENOATE; HYDROPRENE; INSECT HORMONE; INSECT PROTEIN; TUBULIN; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; DNA LIBRARY; ENDOCRINE GLAND; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; INSECT; LEPIDOPTERA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

MANDUCA SEXTA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ECDYSTERONE; ENDOCRINE GLANDS; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; INSECT HORMONES; INSECT PROTEINS; MANDUCA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TUBULIN;

EID: 0032565766     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(98)00083-5     Document Type: Article

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