New insights into the evolution of metazoan tyrosinase gene family

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Esposito, Rosaria ^a   D'Aniello, Salvatore ^a   Squarzoni, Paola ^a,b   Pezzotti, Maria Rosa ^a   Ristoratore, Filomena ^a   Spagnuolo, Antonietta ^a  

^a STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; TYROSINASE RELATED PROTEIN 1; TYROSINASE RELATED PROTEIN 2; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE PRODUCT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PIGMENT CELL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REGULATORY DNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TYROSINASE GENE; TYRP1 GENE; TYRP2 GENE; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; INVERTEBRATE CHORDATA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SEA ANEMONE; SYNTENY;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEA ANEMONES; SYNTENY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84859952425     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035731     Document Type: Article

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