Evolutionary changes to transthyretin: Evolution of transthyretin biosynthesis

FEBS Journal

Volumn 276, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 5342-5356

  Richardson, Samantha J ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Birds; Brain; Choroid plexus; Eutherians; Evolution; Fish; Gene regulation; Liver; Marsupials; Monotremes; Reptiles; Thyroid hormones; Transthyretin; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN A1; FLAVONOID; LIOTHYRONINE; LYSOSOME ASSOCIATED MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1; METAL ION; PREALBUMIN; THYROID HORMONE; THYROXINE;

AMPHIBIA; BIRD; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN GROWTH; CHOROID PLEXUS; GENE CONTROL; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE; LIVER; MARSUPIAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONOTREMATE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; SHORT SURVEY; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; VERTEBRATE; YOLK SAC;

ACUTE-PHASE REACTION; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CARRIER PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREALBUMIN; PREGNANCY; RETINOL-BINDING PROTEINS; THYROID HORMONES; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VERTEBRATES;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONOTREMATA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70349246719     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2009.07244.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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