Accelerated evolution in the protein-coding region of galectin cdnas, congerin I and congerin II, from skin mucus of conger eel (conger myriaster)

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1203-1208

  Ogawa, Tomohisa ^a   Ishii, Chihiro ^a   Kagawa, Daiji ^a   Muramoto, Koji ^a   Kamiya, Hisao ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accelerated evolution; Conger eel; Congerin I and congerin II; Galectin; Skin mucus

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CONGERIN PROTEIN, CONGER MYRIASTER; GALECTIN; HEMAGGLUTININ; LECTIN; MESSENGER RNA; MUSCLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; EEL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUCUS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EELS; EVOLUTION; GALECTINS; HEMAGGLUTININS; LECTINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUCUS; MUSCLE PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SKIN; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS;

EID: 0033162445     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.63.1203     Document Type: Article

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