Molecular cloning of amphioxus uncoupling protein and assessment of its uncoupling activity using a yeast heterologous expression system

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 400, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 701-706

  Chen, Kun ^a   Sun, Guoxun ^b   Lv, Zhiyuan ^a   Wang, Chen ^a   Jiang, Xueyuan ^a   Li, Donghai ^a   Zhang, Chenyu ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Amphioxus; Molecular cloning; Proton leak kinetics; State 4 respiration; UCP; Yeast expression system

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; PROTON; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 1; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 2;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL RESPIRATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHORDATA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTONS; RATS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BRANCHIOSTOMA BELCHERI; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; MAMMALIA; RATTUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 77957304743     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2010.08.131     Document Type: Article

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