Species Names: Ciona intestinalis Oikopleura Branchiostoma (Amphioxus).
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Evidence that talin alternative splice variants from Ciona intestinalis have different roles in cell adhesion
Sotheavy VannNgoc Phan
• Modular cytoskeletal proteins-cell adhesions
• Talin 1 and 2 have non-redundant roles• Talin 1-focal cell adhesion and cellular motility
• Talin 2-lables F-actin stress fibers for stable adhesion assemblies
• C. Intestinalis-talin a and talin b• Why study talins?
What are Talins?
Ciona Intestinalis • Phylum Chordata• Life Cycle• Good Model Organism
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Expressed Sequence Tag•Gene Discovery Tool
•EST Method• Involves the Central Dogma of genetics
•Other Methods• Searching for signal sequences• Comparing genomes
Distribution of Talin-a and Talin-b
Phylogeny
Alternative Splicing
Alternative Splicing
Immunoflourescence
Actin binding of Talin-a and Talin-b I/LWEQ modules