Molecular and functional evidence for early divergence of an endothelin-like system during metazoan evolution: Analysis of the Cnidarian, hydra

Development

Volumn 128, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1607-1615

  Zhang, J ^a   Leontovich, A ^a   Sarras M P , Jr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Contraction; Endothelin converting enzyme; Endothelins; Hydra; Morphogenesis

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIN; ENDOTHELIN CONVERTING ENZYME; ENDOTHELIN DERIVATIVE; FRESH WATER; LIGAND;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; COELENTERATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOLUTION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INVERTEBRATE; MAMMAL; METAZOON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEURAL CREST CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VASOCONSTRICTION; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ENDOTHELINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE LIBRARY; HYDRA; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; THIONUCLEOTIDES;

EID: 0034986307     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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