Rheb, an activator of target of rapamycin, in the blackback land crab, Gecarcinus lateralis: Cloning and effects of molting and unweighting on expression in skeletal

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 215, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 590-604

  MacLea, Kyle S ^a   Abuhagr, Ali M ^a   Pitts, Natalie L ^a   Covi, Joseph A ^a,b   Bader, Brandon D ^a   Chang, Ernest S ^c   Mykles, Donald L ^a  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STEVENS POINT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Akt; Amino acid sequence; Arthropoda; CDNA cloning; Crustacea; DNA sequence; Ecdysteroid; Eyestalk ablation; Gene expression; K box; Molting; MRNA; MTOR; Myostatin; Rheb; S6 kinase; Skeletal muscle; Target of rapamycin; Tissue distribution

Indexed keywords

ECDYSTEROID; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MONOMERIC GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MYOSTATIN; NEUROPEPTIDE; PROTEIN KINASE B; RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S6 KINASE, 70KD, POLYPEPTIDE 2; S6 KINASE; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRACHYURA; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLTING; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SHELLFISH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ECDYSTEROIDS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLTING; MONOMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOSTATIN; NEUROPEPTIDES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S6 KINASES, 70-KDA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SHELLFISH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; CARCINUS MAENAS; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GECARCINUS LATERALIS; HOMARUS AMERICANUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84856538619     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.062869     Document Type: Article

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