The chitin synthase involved in marine bivalve mollusk shell formation contains a myosin domain

FEBS Letters

Volumn 580, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1846-1852

  Weiss, Ingrid M ^a   Schönitzer, Veronika ^a   Eichner, Norbert ^a   Sumper, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomineralization; Chitin biosynthesis; Mollusk larvae in situ hybridization; Mollusk shell

Indexed keywords

CHITIN SYNTHASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MYOSIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIVALVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; INVERTEBRATE; LARVA; MOLLUSC; MYTILUS GALLOPROVINCIALIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOGENESIS; CHITIN SYNTHASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; LARVA; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MOLLUSCA; MYOSINS; MYTILUS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

ANIMALIA; ATRINA RIGIDA; BIVALVIA; HERE; INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA; MYTILUS GALLOPROVINCIALIS;

EID: 33644990126     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.02.044     Document Type: Article

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