A mammalian ortholog of Drosophila timeless, highly expressed in SCN and retina, forms a complex with mPER1

Genes to Cells

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 67-75

  Takumi, Toru ^a,b   Nagamine, Yasuko ^c   Miyake, Shigeru ^a   Matsubara, Chiaki ^a,b   Taguchi, Kouji ^a   Takekida, Seiichi ^a   Sakakida, Yoko ^a   Nishikawa, Kazuko ^c   Kishimoto, Toshihiko ^c   Niwa, Shin Ichiro ^c   Okumura, Ko ^b,d   Okamura, Hitoshi ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

^d JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CELL CULTURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 6544232819     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1999.00238.x     Document Type: Article

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