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Zebrafish (Danio rerio) matrilins: shared and divergent characteristics with their mammalian counterparts.
The Biochemical journal - 1 Mar 2005
Ko Ya-Ping, Kobbe Birgit, Paulsson Mats, Wagener Raimund
Abstract excerpt
We have cloned the cDNAs of the zebrafish (Danio rerio) members of the matrilin family of extracellular adaptor proteins. In contrast to mammals, no orthologue of matrilin-2 was found in zebrafish, either by RT (reverse-transcriptase) PCR using degenerated primers or by screening the databases (Ensembl and NCBI); however, two forms of matrilin-3, matrilin-3a and -3b, were present. The identity with the mammalian...
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