Identification and expression analysis of GPAT family genes during early development of Xenopus laevis

Gene Expression Patterns

Volumn 12, Issue 7-8, 2012, Pages 219-227

  Bertolesi, Gabriel E ^a   Iannattone, Stephanie ^a   Johnston, Jill ^a   Zaremberg, Vanina ^b   McFarlane, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acyltransferase; DHAPAT; Embryo; Organogenesis; Phospholipid; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

DIHYDROXYACETONE PHOSPHATE ACYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCEROL 3 PHOSPHATE ACYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCEROL 3 PHOSPHATE ACYLTRANSFERASE 1; GLYCEROL 3 PHOSPHATE ACYLTRANSFERASE 2; GLYCEROL 3 PHOSPHATE ACYLTRANSFERASE 3; GLYCEROL 3 PHOSPHATE ACYLTRANSFERASE 4; GLYCEROLIPID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; KIDNEY; LIPOGENESIS; LIVER; MITOCHONDRION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TESTIS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GLYCEROL-3-PHOSPHATE O-ACYLTRANSFERASE; KIDNEY; LARVA; LIVER; MALE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; ORGANOGENESIS; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTOME; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

MAMMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84861387892     PISSN: 1567133X     EISSN: 18727298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gep.2012.04.002     Document Type: Article

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