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Structure and evolution of tropomyosin genes.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology - 1 Jan 2008
Vrhovski Bernadette, Thézé Nadine, Thiébaud Pierre
Abstract excerpt
Tropomyosins constitute a family of highly related actin-binding proteins found in the animal kingdom from yeast to human. In vertebrates, they are encoded by a multigene family where each member can produce several isoforms through alternative splicing and for some of them with alternate promoters. Tropomyosin isoform diversity has considerably increased during evolution from invertebrates to vertebrates and...
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