Expression of a novel tropomyosin isoform in axolotl heart and skeletal muscle

Journal of Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 875-881

  Thomas, Anish ^a   Rajan, Sudarsan ^b   Thurston, Harold L ^a   Masineni, Sreeharsha N ^b   Dube, Preeti ^a   Bose, Abhishek ^a   Muthu, Vasundhara ^a   Dube, Syamalima ^a   Wieczorek, David F ^b   Poiesz, Bernard J ^a   Dube, Dipak K ^a  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambystoma mexicanum; Growth and development; Heart; Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction; Skeletal muscle; Tropomyosin

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TROPOMYOSIN; TROPOMYOSIN 1KAPPA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ISOPROTEIN; PARAFFIN; PRIMER DNA;

AMBYSTOMA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; HEART; MUSCLE FIBRIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SARCOMERE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMBYSTOMA MEXICANUM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMBYSTOMA MEXICANUM;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMBYSTOMA MEXICANUM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOCARDIUM; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TROPOMYOSIN;

EID: 77954129088     PISSN: 07302312     EISSN: 10974644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcb.22599     Document Type: Article

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