A potentially exhaustive screening strategy reveals two novel divergent myosins in Dictyostelium

Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 413-435

  Schwarz, Eva C ^a   Geissler, Heidrun ^a   Soldati, Thierry ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EUKARYOTA;

MYOK PROTEIN, DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; MYOM PROTEIN, DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; MYOSIN; MYOSIN I; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PH; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, YEAST; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENE LIBRARY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOSIN TYPE I; MYOSINS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0032602015     PISSN: 10859195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02738122     Document Type: Article

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