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Pull-down of Calmodulin-binding Proteins
Published on: January 23, 2012
Calmodulin cDNAs from two species of Tetrahymena
T Takemasa1, T Takagi, M Edamatsu
1Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta
|September 24, 1992
Abstract:
We describe the isolation and characterization of cDNAs encoding calmodulins of Tetrahymena thermophila and Tetrahymena pyriformis. It reveals that the deduced amino acid sequences of both calmodulins are precisely the same.
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