A novel amphioxus cadherin that localizes to epithelial adherens junctions has an unusual domain organization with implications for chordate phylogeny

Evolution and Development

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 426-434

  Oda, Hiroki ^a,e   Wada, Hiroshi ^b   Tagawa, Kunifumi ^b,c   Akiyama Oda, Yasuko ^a,e   Satoh, Nori ^b   Humphreys, Tom ^c   Zhang, Shicui ^d   Tsukita, Shoichiro ^a,b  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^e JT Biohistory Research Hall ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN;

PHYLOGENY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL JUNCTION; EPITHELIUM; GENETICS; INVERTEBRATE CHORDATA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OYSTER; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; STARFISH; VERTEBRATE;

ADHERENS JUNCTIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CADHERINS; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; EPITHELIUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OSTREIDAE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; STARFISH; VERTEBRATES;

ANIMALIA; ASTERIAS; ASTEROIDEA; BILATERIA; BRANCHIOSTOMA; BRANCHIOSTOMA BELCHERI; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; CEPHALOCHORDATA; CHORDATA; ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDEA; ENTEROPNEUSTA; HEMICHORDATA; MOLLUSCA; OSTREIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 18744376567     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-142X.2002.02031.x     Document Type: Article

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