Insights into the evolution of the ErbB receptor family and their ligands from sequence analysis

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Stein, Richard A ^a   Staros, James V ^b,c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE DERIVATIVE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; LIGAND; MEPRIN; MUCIN; MUCIN 12; MUCIN 17; MUCIN 3; MUCIN 4; PROTEOGLYCAN; PROTEOGLYCAN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 3; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 4; ERBB4 PROTEIN, HUMAN; RNA SPLICING;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

TETRAPODA;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; RECEPTOR, ERBB-3; RECEPTOR, ERBB-4; RNA SPLICE SITES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 33750372649     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-6-79     Document Type: Article

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