Feminizing chicks: a model for avian sex determination based on titration of Hint enzyme activity and the predicted structure of an Asw-Hint heterodimer

Genome Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Pace, Helen C ^a   Brenner, Charles ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dime Interface; Green Fluorescent Protein Control; Hint Gene; Productive Hydrogen Bonding; Substrate Saturation Kinetic

Indexed keywords

AVIAN PROTEIN; AVIAN SEX SPECIFIC W LINKED PROTEIN, CHICKEN; AVIAN SEX-SPECIFIC W-LINKED PROTEIN, CHICKEN; HINTERTEIL PROTEIN, HYDRA VULGARIS; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHICK EMBRYO; DIMERIZATION; FEMALE; GENDER AND SEX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; TITRIMETRY;

ANIMALS; AVIAN PROTEINS; CHICK EMBRYO; DIMERIZATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); TITRIMETRY;

EID: 0037264172     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2003-4-3-r18     Document Type: Article

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