The water-borne protein signals (pheromones) of the Antarctic ciliated protozoan Euplotes nobilii: Structure of the gene coding for the En-6 pheromone

Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 57-62

  La Terza, Antonietta ^a   Dobri, Nicoleta ^a   Alimenti, Claudio ^a   Vallesi, Adriana ^a   Luporini, Pierangelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antarctic biology; Antarctic ciliates; Cold adaptation; Pheromone genes

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCES; ANTARCTIC BIOLOGY; ANTARCTIC CILIATES; CODING REGIONS; COLD ADAPTATION; CULTURE SUPERNATANT; ENCODING GENES; GENE CODING; ISOFORMS; MATURE PROTEINS; PHEROMONE GENES; PROTEOLYTIC CLEAVAGES; SIGNAL PEPTIDES; WATER-BORNE; WILD-TYPE STRAINS;

AMINES; AMINO ACIDS; CELL CULTURE; CLONING; GENES; ORGANIC ACIDS; PROBES;

HORMONES;

PHEROMONE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID; CELL ORGANELLE; CILIATE; CLONE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; PEPTIDE; PHEROMONE; PROTEIN; PROTOZOAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTARCTICA; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOPLASM; EUPLOTES; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MACRONUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTOZOON; ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

CILIOPHORA; EUPLOTES NOBILII; MYXOZOA;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EUPLOTES; GENE EXPRESSION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHEROMONES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 64249110661     PISSN: 00084166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/W08-122     Document Type: Conference Paper

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