Cloning and expression of the recombinant mouse natural killer cell guanzyme Met-ase-1

Immunogenetics

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 340-350

  Kelly, Janice M ^a   O'Connor, Michael D ^a   Hulett, Mark D ^a   Thia, Kevin Y T ^a   Smyth, Mark J ^a  

^a AUSTIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GRANZYME; SERINE PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GRANULOCYTE; LARGE GRANULAR LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029837726     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02602778     Document Type: Article

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