Genomic structure of nitric oxide synthase in the terrestrial slug is highly conserved

Gene

Volumn 415, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 74-81

  Matsuo, Ryota ^a   Misawa, Kazuharu ^b   Ito, Etsuro ^a  

^a TOKUSHIMA BUNRI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Evolution; Limax; Mollusk; Multiple exons; NO; PDZ domain

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DISCS LARGE PROTEIN; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95; PROTEIN ZO1;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; EXON; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SMELLING; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXONS; GASTROPODA; GENOME; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA SPLICE SITES; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ANIMALIA; GASTROPODA; LIMAX; MOLLUSCA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 42649084047     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2008.02.021     Document Type: Article

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