Functional characterization in Caenorhabditis elegans of transmembrane worm-human orthologs

BMC Genomics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Henricson, Anna ^a   Sonnhammer, Erik L L ^a   Baillie, David L ^b   Gomes, Ana Vaz ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE RRF 3, C ELEGANS; RNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE RRF-3, C ELEGANS; SFT 4 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; SFT-4 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; SLC39A4 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE FUSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; LARVAL STAGE; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WORM; ANIMAL; BLADDER TUMOR; BREAST TUMOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; PEPTIDES; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA REPLICASE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 9144248515     PISSN: 14712164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-5-85     Document Type: Article

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