Identification and expression analysis of an IL-18 homologue and its alternatively spliced form in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 271, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1913-1923

  Zou, Jun ^a   Bird, Steve ^a   Truckle, Jonathan ^a   Bols, Niels ^b   Horne, Mike ^c   Secombes, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c Enterprise House   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Expression; Interleukin 18; Rainbow trout

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL CULTURE; DOWN REGULATION; EXON; FIBROBLAST; GENE DELETION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GILL; HEART; HUMAN; INTESTINE; INTRON; KIDNEY; LIVER; MACROPHAGE; MOLECULE; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; RAINBOW TROUT; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKIN; SPLEEN; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; INTERLEUKIN-18; KIDNEY; LEUKOCYTES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 2442701356     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.2004.04101.x     Document Type: Article

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