title: Isolation and characterization of cDNA clones encoding the skeletal and smooth muscle Xenopus laevis beta tropomyosin isoforms.
abstract: cDNAs clones corresponding to the skeletal and smooth muscle beta tropomyosins isoforms were isolated from a Xenopus laevis embryo cDNA library. Sequence analysis indicated that the two isoforms are coded by a single gene that uses two couples of alternative exons. The expression of the X. laevis beta tropomyosin gene closely resembles that of the mammalian gene but differs from the avian gene.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Biologie et Génétique du Développement, URA CNRS 256, Faculté des Sciences, Rennes, France.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hardy
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Thiebaud
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004247:DNA / Q000302:isolation & purification; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009130:Muscle, Smooth / Q000378:metabolism*; D009132:Muscles / Q000378:metabolism*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D014335:Tropomyosin / Q000235:genetics*; D014982:Xenopus laevis
chemical_list: D014335:Tropomyosin; D004247:DNA