Coupled site-directed mutagenesis/transgenesis identifies important functional domains of the mouse agouti protein

Genetics

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 255-264

  Perry, William L ^a   Nakamura, Takuro ^a   Swing, Deborah A ^a   Secrest, Lisa ^a   Eagleson, Bryn ^a   Hustad, Carolyn M ^a   Copeland, Neal G ^b   Jenkins, Nancy A ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GLYCOSYLATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASPARAGINE; BINDING SITES; CYSTEINE; FEMALE; HAIR COLOR; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OBESITY; PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSGENES;

AGOUTI; ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0029742992     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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