Glycosyl Phosphatidylinositol-Anchored Proteins in Chemosensory Signaling: Antisense Manipulation of Paramecium tetraurelia PIG-A Gene Expression

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1211-1219

  Yano, Junji ^a   Rachochy, Villa ^a   Van Houten, Judith L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; MESSENGER RNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHEMORECEPTOR; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHEMORECEPTORS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; PARAMECIUM; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; PROTOZOA; VECTORS;

EID: 0346433833     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.2.6.1211-1219.2003     Document Type: Article

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