Polyamine sensitivity of gap junctions is required for skin pattern formation in zebrafish

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Watanabe, Masakatsu ^a   Watanabe, Daisuke ^a   Kondo, Shigeru ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; DIAMINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DIAMINE N-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; POLYAMINE; ZEBRAFISH PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CLASSIFICATION; GAP JUNCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKIN; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; ZEBRA FISH;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BINDING SITES; BODY PATTERNING; CONNEXINS; GAP JUNCTIONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYAMINES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SKIN; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 84863474471     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00473     Document Type: Article

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