The metazoan history of the COE transcription factors. Selection of a variant HLH motif by mandatory inclusion of a duplicated exon in vertebrates

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Daburon, Virginie ^a   Mella, Sébastien ^a,b   Plouhinec, Jean Louis ^c,d   Mazan, Sylvie ^c   Crozatier, Michèle ^a   Vincent, Alain ^a  

^a Institut d'Exploration Fonctionnelle des Genomes   (France)

^b WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Laboratoire d'Immunologie et Embryologie Moleculaires Orleans   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PLEXIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OLFACTORY 1; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLOSTOME; DNA BINDING; EXON; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA SPLICING; THELAZIA; VERTEBRATE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; DROSOPHILA; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

METAZOA; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BAYES THEOREM; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 44249121068     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-131     Document Type: Article

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