Direct observation of histone H2B-YFP fusion proteins and transport of their mRNA between conjugating Paramecia

Gene

Volumn 395, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 108-115

  Takenaka, Yasuhiro ^a   Yanagi, Akira ^b   Masuda, Hiromi ^a,c   Mitsui, Youji ^d   Mizuno, Hiroshi ^a,c   Haga, Nobuyuki ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b ISHINOMAKI SENSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d TOKUSHIMA BUNRI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conjugation; Fluorescent protein; Histone; Paramecium; Transformation

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H2B; HYBRID PROTEIN; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARAMECIUM CAUDATUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC VECTORS; HISTONES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PARAMECIUM CAUDATUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

PARAMECIUM; PARAMECIUM CAUDATUM;

EID: 34247574165     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2007.02.013     Document Type: Article

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