Identification of a putative invertebrate helical cytokine similar to the ciliary neurotrophic factor/Leukemia inhibitory factor family by PSI-BLAST-Based approach

Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 461-468

  Cheng, Gong ^a   Zhao, Xin ^b   Li, Zuofeng ^a,b   Liu, Xinyi ^c   Yan, Weiyao ^a   Zhang, Xiaoyan ^c   Zhong, Yang ^a,b   Zheng, Zhaoxin ^a,d  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI CENTER FOR BIOINFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CG 14629 PROTEIN; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYCLOSPORIN A [1 (3,8 DIHYDROXY 2 METHYLAMINO 4 METHYL 6 OCTENOIC ACID)]; CYTOKINE; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR RECEPTOR; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; FISH; GENE SEQUENCE; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CYTOKINES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FISH PROTEINS; FISHES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECEPTOR, CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 68949154591     PISSN: 10799907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jir.2008.0078     Document Type: Article

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