A novel tropomyosin isoform encoded by the Xenopus laevis α-TM gene is expressed in the brain

Gene

Volumn 207, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 235-239

  Gaillard, Catherine ^a   Thézé, Nadine ^b   Lerivray, Hubert ^a   Hardy, Serge ^a   Lepetit, David ^a   Thiébaud, Pierre ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Expression; Gene organization; Isoform diversity; Nucleotide sequence

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TROPOMYOSIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, MESSENGER; TROPOMYOSIN; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0344110459     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00634-3     Document Type: Article

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