Production, gene structure and characterization of two orthologs of leptin and a leptin receptor in tilapia

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 207, Issue , 2014, Pages 74-85

  Shpilman, Michal ^a   Hollander Cohen, Lian ^a   Ventura, Tomer ^b   Gertler, Arieh ^a   Levavi Sivan, Berta ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

Author keywords

Recombinant leptin; RNA seq; STAT3; Synteny

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; NALIDIXIC ACID; FISH PROTEIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR, HUMAN; MESSENGER RNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FISH GENETICS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE SYNTHESIS; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IMPDH1 GENE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LLRC4 GENE; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SYNTENY; TILAPIA; TLEPA GENE; TLEPB GENE; TLEPR GENE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FISH PROTEINS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; LEPTIN; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, LEPTIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TILAPIA;

EID: 84908139001     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2014.05.006     Document Type: Article

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