Cloning and characterization of testis-specific tektin in Bombyx mori

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 371-382

  Ota, Atsuko ^a   Kusakabe, Takahiro ^a   Sugimoto, Yasushi ^b   Takahashi, Masateru ^a   Nakajima, Yumiko ^c   Kawaguchi, Yutaka ^a   Koga, Katsumi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bombyx mori; cDNA cloning; Expression analysis; mRNA subtraction; Promoter; Spermatogenesis; Tektin; Testis specific gene

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; MESSENGER RNA; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN; TEKTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MICROTUBULE PROTEIN; TEKTINS;

ARTICLE; CILIARY BODY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; FLAGELLUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RANDOMIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; TECHNIQUE; TESTIS; WESTERN BLOTTING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SILKWORM; SPERMATOZOON;

BOMBYX; BOMBYX MORI; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS PURPURATUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BOMBYX; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; MALE; MICROTUBULE PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 0036849623     PISSN: 10964959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1096-4959(02)00153-7     Document Type: Article

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