Molecular Basis for the Heterogeneity of Human Tyrosinase

The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 156, Issue 4, 1988, Pages 403-414

  Shibahara, Shigeki ^a,b   Muller, Rita M ^a   Cohen, Tirza ^a   Tomita, Yasushi ^c   Tagami, Hachiro ^c  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b Department of Applied Physiology ^*  (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

alternative splicing; cDNA; gene; melanin pigment; tyrosinase

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MELANIN; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE;

GENE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PIGMENT CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS NUCLEASE S1; BASE SEQUENCE; CATECHOL OXIDASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DNA, RECOMBINANT; ENDONUCLEASES; HUMAN; MELANOMA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0024210283     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.156.403     Document Type: Article

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