Developmental Regulation and Identification of an Isotype Encoded by AltB, an Alpha-tubulin Locus in Physarum Polycephalum

Overview

Journal Mol Cell Biol

Specialty Cell Biology

Date 1987 Sep 1

PMID 2823127

Citations 2

Authors

L L Green

M M Schroeder

M A Diggins

W F Dove

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Abstract

A subcloned portion of the 5' nontranslated sequence from a Physarum alpha-tubulin cDNA is specific for a single alpha-tubulin locus, altB, of Physarum polycephalum. We find that this locus is expressed only in the plasmodium and encodes at least an alpha 1-tubulin isotype, which we have designated alpha 1B. Hybridization patterns of other subclones of this cDNA reveal two sequences for alpha-tubulin at the altB locus.

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