Edit, cut and paste in the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor gene family of Drosophila melanogaster

BioEssays

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 366-376

  Sattelle, D B ^a   Jones, A K ^a   Sattelle, B M ^a   Matsuda, K ^b   Reenan, R ^c   Biggin, P C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ALKALOID; IMIDACLOPRID; INSECT PROTEIN; INSECTICIDE; ISOPROTEIN; LIGAND; NICOTINE; NICOTINE DERIVATIVE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DRUG BINDING SITE; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TECHNOLOGY; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; INSECT GENETICS; INVERTEBRATE; ION CONDUCTANCE; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHARMACOPHORE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; RECEPTOR GENE; REVIEW; RNA EDITING; RNA PROCESSING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CHOLINERGIC AGENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HUMANS; IMIDAZOLES; INSECTICIDES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; RNA EDITING; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; MELANOGASTER; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 17844367558     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20207     Document Type: Review

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