Reflectins: The Unusual Proteins of Squid Reflective Tissues

Science

Volumn 303, Issue 5655, 2004, Pages 235-238

  Crookes, Wendy J ^a   Ding, Lin Lin ^b   Huang, Qing Ling ^b   Kimbell, Jennifer R ^a   Horwitz, Joseph ^b   HcFall Ngai, Margaret J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); GENETIC ENGINEERING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; TISSUE CULTURE;

ANIMALS; REFLECTIVE TISSUES;

PROTEINS;

ALANINE; ARGININE; GENE PRODUCT; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; LYSINE; METHIONINE; REFLECTIN; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

INVERTEBRATE; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; SQUID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; DECAPODIFORMES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOLUBILITY;

ANIMALIA; CEPHALOPODA; EUPRYMNA; EUPRYMNA SCOLOPES; INVERTEBRATA; SCOLOPES;

EID: 0347986843     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1091288     Document Type: Article

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