Multiple gene organization of pufferfish Fugu rubripes tropomyosin isoforms and tissue distribution of their transcripts

Gene

Volumn 331, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 41-51

  Toramoto, Takuya ^a   Ikeda, Daisuke ^a   Ochiai, Yoshihiro ^a   Minoshima, Shinsei ^b,c   Shimizu, Nobuyoshi ^b   Watabe, Shugo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; EST; Expressed sequence tag; Fugu; Genome duplication; High molecular weight; HMW; LMW; Low molecular weight; Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction; RT PCR; TnT; TPM; Tropomyosin; Troponin T

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; TROPOMYOSIN; TROPOMYOSIN 1; TROPOMYOSIN 2; TROPOMYOSIN 3; TROPOMYOSIN 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; EXON; FUGU RUBRIPES; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUFFER FISH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TAKIFUGU; TROPOMYOSIN;

GENYONEMUS LINEATUS; TAKIFUGU; TAKIFUGU RUBRIPES; TETRAODONTIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 4444246766     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2004.01.013     Document Type: Article

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