Molecular cloning of a cDNA encoding a silkworm protein that contains the conserved BH regions of Bcl-2 family proteins

Gene

Volumn 212, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 287-293

  Tambunan, Joseph ^a   Kan Chang, Pei ^a   Li, Hong ^a   Natori, Masahiko ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bombyx mori; Insect; Metamorphosis; Programmed cell death; Silk gland histolysis

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTEINE; DNA FRAGMENT; GLYCINE; LYSINE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CROSS REACTION; DNA LIBRARY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SILKWORM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-X PROTEIN; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BOMBYX; CHICKENS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HUMANS; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BOMBYX MORI; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0344043488     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00126-7     Document Type: Article

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