Characterization of the chicken transitin gene reveals a strong relationship to the nestin intermediate filament class

Journal of Molecular Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 11-22

  Napier, Audrey ^a   Yuan, Albert ^a   Cole, Gregory J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary rate; Intermediate filament; Leucine zipper; Nestin; Tanabin; Transitin

Indexed keywords

DESMIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; NESTIN;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTRON; NONHUMAN; RAT; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICKENS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DESMIN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOMIC LIBRARY; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; LEUCINE ZIPPERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; RATS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0032822845     PISSN: 08958696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/JMN:12:1:11     Document Type: Article

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