Cloning of a muscle-specific calpain from the American lobster Homarus americanus: Expression associated with muscle atrophy and restoration during moulting

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 206, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 561-575

  Yu, Xiaoli ^a   Mykles, Donald L ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthropoda; Atrophy; Calcium dependent proteinase; Calpain; cDNA; Crustacea; Gene expression; Homarus americanus; Lobster; Moulting; mRNA; Muscle

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CALPAIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLTING; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; NEPHROPIDAE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ARTHROPODA; CRUSTACEA; EUKARYOTA; HOMARUS AMERICANUS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037323269     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.00097     Document Type: Article

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