The human gene CGT encoding the UDP-galactose ceramide galactosyl transferase (cerebroside synthase): Cloning, characterization, and assignment to human chromosome 4, band q26

Genomics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 69-75

  Bosio, Andreas ^a   Binczek, Erika ^a   Le Beau, Michelle M ^b   Fernald, Anthony A ^b   Stoffel, Wilhelm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEREBROSIDE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GALACTOSE 1 PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCOSPHINGOLIPID; MYELIN PROTEIN; SPHINGOSINE ACYLTRANSFERASE; SULFATIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 4Q; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; EXON; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE ISOLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIPID BILAYER; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYELINATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RAT; SCHWANN CELL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029895408     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1996.0242     Document Type: Article

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