Molecular cloning of the ecdysone receptor and the retinoid X receptor from the scorpion Liocheles australasiae

FEBS Journal

Volumn 274, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 6191-6203

  Nakagawa, Yoshiaki ^a   Sakai, Atsushi ^a   Magata, Fumie ^a   Ogura, Takehiko ^a   Miyashita, Masahiro ^a   Miyagawa, Hisashi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ecdysone receptor (EcR); Liocheles australasiae; Retinoid X receptor (RXR); Scorpion; Ultraspiracle (USP)

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ECDYSONE RECEPTOR; PONASTERONE A; RETINOID X RECEPTOR;

AMBLYOMMA; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COLEOPTERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLY; LEPIDOPTERA; LIOCHELES AUSTRALASIAE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; ORTHOPTERA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RETICULOCYTE; SCORPION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TICK;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ECDYSONE; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; KINETICS; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; RADIOLIGAND ASSAY; RECEPTORS, STEROID; RETINOID X RECEPTORS; SCORPIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

AMBLYOMMA AMERICANUM; ARGASIDAE; COLEOPTERA; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; IXODIDA; LIOCHELES; ORNITHODOROS MOUBATA; ORTHOPTERA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; SCORPIONES;

EID: 36249011848     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2007.06139.x     Document Type: Article

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