The astacin protein family in Caenorhabditis elegans

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 270, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 4909-4920

  Möhrlen, Frank ^a   Hutter, Harald ^b   Zwilling, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Astacin family; Astacus astacus; Caenorhabditis elegans; Metalloproteases; Protein evolution

Indexed keywords

ASTACIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; METALLOPROTEINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; DIGESTION; FLUORESCENCE; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; HATCHING; MORPHOGENESIS; NAS 39 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PSEUDOGENE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CATALYSIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; METALLOPROTEASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER;

ASTACUS ASTACUS; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 17444450739     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2003.03891.x     Document Type: Article

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