Marsupial models for understanding evolution of thyroid hormone distributor proteins

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 293, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 32-42

  Richardson, Samantha J ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Evolution; Gene regulation; Liver; Marsupial; Thyroid hormone; Transthyretin

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; AMYLOID; LIOTHYRONINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREALBUMIN; RETINOL; THYROID HORMONE; THYROXINE; THYROXINE BINDING GLOBULIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; LACTATION; MARSUPIAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID HORMONE RELEASE;

ALBUMINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIPID METABOLISM; LIVER; MARSUPIALIA; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; THYROID HORMONES;

EID: 51249124440     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

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