Cloning and characterization of three salamander retinal G-protein beta subunits

Molecular Vision

Volumn 7, Issue , 2001, Pages 222-227

  Ryan, James C ^a   Crouch, Rosalie K ^a   Ma, Jia Xing ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DIMER; HETEROTRIMERIC GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; TRANSDUCIN;

ALPHA CHAIN; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SCREENING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RETINA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALAMANDER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; VISUAL SYSTEM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EYE PROTEINS; GENE LIBRARY; HETEROTRIMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; RETINA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; URODELA;

EID: 0035789121     PISSN: 10900535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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