Tunicates have unusual nuclear lamins with a large deletion in the carboxyterminal tail domain

Gene

Volumn 255, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 317-325

  Riemer, Dieter ^a   Wang, Jian ^a   Zimek, Alexander ^a   Swalla, Billie J ^b   Weber, Klaus ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cephalochordate; Chordate; Intermediate filament; Phylogeny; Urochordate; Vertebrate

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LAMIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHORDATA; DROSOPHILA; HUMAN; INVERTEBRATE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN VARIANT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VERTEBRATE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; CIONA INTESTINALIS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LAMINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; UROCHORDATA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BRANCHIOSTOMA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CIONA INTESTINALIS; DROSOPHILA; HYDRA; MOLGULA OCULATA; PRIAPULUS; STYELA CLAVA;

EID: 0034687110     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00323-1     Document Type: Article

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