Fourth component of Xenopus laevis complement: cDNA cloning and linkage analysis of the frog MHC

Immunogenetics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 360-369

  Mo, Ruran ^a   Kato, Yoichi ^b   Nonaka, Masaru ^b   Nakayama, Kohzo ^a   Takahashi, Morinobu ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 MACROGLOBULIN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C5; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTEINE; MESSENGER RNA; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; FROG; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0029875679     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02199804     Document Type: Article

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