Intron Retention as a Posttranscriptional Regulatory Mechanism of Neurotoxin Expression at Early Life Stages of the Starlet Anemone Nematostella vectensis

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 380, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 437-443

  Moran, Yehu ^a   Weinberger, Hagar ^a   Reitzel, Adam M ^b,c   Sullivan, James C ^c   Kahn, Roy ^a   Gordon, Dalia ^a   Finnerty, John R ^c   Gurevitz, Michael ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

intron retention; Nematostella vectensis; recombinant expression; sea anemone toxins; splicing

Indexed keywords

NEMATOSTELLA VECTENSIS TOXIN 1; NEUROTOXIN; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANEMONE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; INTRON; LIFE CYCLE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEMATOSTELLA VECTENSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANULA; POLYP (CNIDARIAN); PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTINIARIA; ANEMONE; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; NEMATOSTELLA; NEMATOSTELLA VECTENSIS;

EID: 51749125812     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.05.011     Document Type: Article

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