Isolation of two functional retinoid X receptor subtypes from the ixodid tick, Amblyomma americanum (L.)

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 139, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 45-60

  Guo, Xiaoping ^a   Xu, Qing ^a   Harmon, Margaret A ^b   Jin, Xiaojing ^a   Laudet, Vincent ^c   Mangelsdorf, David J ^b   Palmer, Melanie J ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Univ Claude Bernard   (France)

Author keywords

Amblyomma americanum; Ecdysteroid; Retinoid X receptors; RXR; Tick

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ECDYSTEROID; HORMONE RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; RETINOID X RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; GENE ISOLATION; INSECT; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TICK; TRANSACTIVATION; VERTEBRATE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIMERIZATION; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HAPLORHINI; IXODES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; RECEPTORS, STEROID; RETINOID X RECEPTORS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION; TRETINOIN;

EID: 0032580249     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(98)00073-2     Document Type: Article

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