ASI1, a gene encoding a novel leucine zipper protein, is induced during development of the macronucleus in Tetrahymena

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 118, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 215-218

  Udani, Rupa A ^a   Karrer, Kathleen M ^a  

^a Marquette University   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmentally induced transcripts; Intron; Leucine zipper; Macronuclear anlagen; Methyl accepting chemotaxis protein; Tetrahymena

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE INDUCTION; INTRON; MACRONUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; TETRAHYMENA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMOTAXIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UPREGULATION;

CILIOPHORA; TETRAHYMENA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHEMOTAXIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INTRONS; LEUCINE ZIPPERS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TETRAHYMENA; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0036803303     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(02)00259-9     Document Type: Article

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