Cold-adapted tubulins in the glacier ice worm, Mesenchytraeus solifugus

Gene

Volumn 423, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 135-141

  Tartaglia, Lawrence J ^a   Shain, Daniel H ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Annelid; Microtubule; Polymerization; Psychrophile

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; BETA TUBULIN; ISOPROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CILIATE; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; FISH; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; MESENCHYTRAEUS SOLIFUGUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WORM;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COLD; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DOSAGE; HELMINTHS; ICE COVER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TUBULIN;

ANNELIDA; CILIOPHORA; MESENCHYTRAEUS SOLIFUGUS;

EID: 51249110574     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2008.07.025     Document Type: Article

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