Tremendous intron length differences of the BmKBT and a novel BmKBT-like peptide genes provide a mechanical basis for the rapid or constitutive expression of the peptides

Peptides

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 150-156

  Nie, Yao ^a   Zeng, Xian Chun ^a   Luo, Xuesong ^a   Wu, Shifen ^a   Zhang, Lei ^a   Cao, Hanjun ^a   Zhou, Jianping ^a   Zhou, Lingli ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BMKBT PEPTIDE; BMKBY PEPTIDE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PEPTIDE; SCORPION VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; INTRON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORPION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; INTRONS; LARVA; LETHAL DOSE 50; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTHS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

HELICOVERPA ARMIGERA; MESOBUTHUS MARTENSII; MUS; SCORPIONES;

EID: 84865256874     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: 18735169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2012.06.002     Document Type: Article

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