Why are human G-protein-coupled receptors predominantly intronless?

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 47-49

  Gentles, Andrew J ^a   Karlin, Samuel ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXON; HUMAN; INTRON; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTRONS; INVERTEBRATES; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RETROVIRIDAE; VERTEBRATES;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0033082350     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(98)01648-5     Document Type: Letter

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