A large plant beta-tubulin family with minimal C-terminal variation but differences in expression

Gene

Volumn 340, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 151-160

  Jost, Wolfgang ^a   Baur, Armin ^a   Nick, Peter ^b   Reski, Ralf ^c   Gorr, Gilbert ^a  

^a Greenovation Biotech GmbH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

A; A G T; aa; adenosine; amino acid(s); basepair(s); Beta tubulin isotypes; bp; C; cDNA; cytidine; D; deoxyribonuclease; DNA complementary to RNA; DNase; EST; Evolution of land plants; expressed sequence tag; G; GTP; guanosine; Moss; Physcomitrella patens

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GREEN ALGA; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOSS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BRYOPSIDA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, PLANT; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TUBULIN;

ALGAE; BRYOPHYTA; CHLOROPHYTA; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; PHYSCOMITRELLA; PHYSCOMITRELLA PATENS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 5444231822     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2004.06.009     Document Type: Article

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