Lactate dehydrogenase A as a highly abundant eye lens protein in platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus): Upsilon (υ)-crystallin

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 994-998

  Van Rheede, Teun ^a   Amons, Reinout ^b   Stewart, Niall ^c   De Jong, Wilfried W ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

crystallin; Gene sharing; Lactate dehydrogenase; Mammalian phylogeny; Ornithorhynchus anatinus; Platypus; Taxon specific crystallin

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LENS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UPSILON CRYSTALLIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; GENE CONTROL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLATYPUS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLINS; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ISOENZYMES; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLATYPUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

AVES; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); MAMMALIA; ORNITHORHYNCHUS ANATINUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037910309     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg116     Document Type: Article

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