Molecular cloning, mRNA expression and tissue distribution analysis of Slc7a11 gene in alpaca (Lama paco) skins associated with different coat colors

Gene

Volumn 555, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 88-94

  Tian, Xue ^a   Meng, Xiaolin ^a   Wang, Liangyan ^a   Song, Yunfei ^c   Zhang, Danli ^b   Ji, Yuankai ^b   Li, Xuejun ^a   Dong, Changsheng ^b  

^a HENAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b College of Animal Science and Technology Shanxi Agricultural Universtiy ^*  (China)

^c BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

Author keywords

Alpaca; Coat colors; Skin; Slc7a11; XCT

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; MELANIN; PHEOMELANIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HAIR FOLLICLE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; ISOELECTRIC POINT; LAMA PACO; MELANOGENESIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLANT GENE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKIN COLOR; SLC7A11 GENE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; ARTIODACTYLA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HAIR; MELANOCYTE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKIN;

CAMELUS FERUS; LAMA PACOS; VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM Y+; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAMELIDS, NEW WORLD; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HAIR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MELANINS; MELANOCYTES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SKIN;

EID: 84920608906     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: 18790038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2014.10.029     Document Type: Article

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