Isolation and developmental expression of tyrosinase family genes in Xenopus laevis

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 455-462

  Kumasaka, Mayuko ^a   Sato, Shigeru ^b   Yajima, Ichiro ^a   Yamamoto, Hiroaki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dct; Melanin; Pigment cell; Tyrosinase; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MELANIN; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; RNA; TYROSINASE RELATED PROTEIN 1; TYROSINASE RELATED PROTEIN 2;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MELANOPHORE; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PIGMENT CELL; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; MELANINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; MELANOPHORA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0042337134     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0749.2003.00064.x     Document Type: Article

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