Comprehensive study on G protein α-subunits in taste bud cells, with special reference to the occurrence of Gαi2 as a major Gα species

Chemical Senses

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 525-531

  Kusakabe, Yuko ^d   Yasuoka, Akihito ^b   Asano Miyoshi, Misaki ^b   Iwabuchi, Kyoko ^a   Matsumoto, Ichiro ^a   Arai, Soichi ^c   Emori, Yasufumi ^b   Abe, Keiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUSTDUCIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA CHAIN; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TASTE BUD; TONGUE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; HETEROTRIMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MALE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASTE BUDS;

EID: 0033793853     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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