Identification and characterization of the fibronogen-like domain of fibronogen-related proteins in the mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, and the fruitfly, Drosophila melanogaster, genomes

BMC Genomics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Wang, Xingou ^a   Zhao, Qin ^a,b   Christensen, Bruce M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b PROMEGA CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; CARBOHYDRATE DERIVATIVE; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; FIBRINOGEN; FIBRINOGEN RELATED PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXPERIMENTATION; FEEDING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; INNATE IMMUNITY; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PREDICTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENETICS; GENOME; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; DNA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FIBRINOGEN; GENOME; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 25444445269     PISSN: 14712164     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-6-114     Document Type: Article

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