Interspecies diversity of the occludin sequence: CDNA cloning of human, mouse, dog, and rat-kangaroo homologues

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 43-47

  Ando Akatsuka, Yuhko ^a   Saitou, Mitinori ^a   Hirase, Tetsuaki ^a   Kishi, Masashi ^a   Sakakibara, Akira ^b   Itoh, Masahiko ^a   Yonemura, Shigenobu ^a   Furuse, Mikio ^a   Tsukita, Shoichiro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANIS FAMILIARIS; GALLUS GALLUS; MACROPUS SP.; MAMMALIA; MURINAE; POTOROIDAE; POTOROUS TRIDACTYLUS;

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INHIBITOR PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; DOG; HUMAN; KANGAROO; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIGHT JUNCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DOGS; GENES; HUMANS; MACROPODIDAE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONAL APOPTOSIS-INHIBITORY PROTEIN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TIGHT JUNCTIONS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0029912970     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.133.1.43     Document Type: Article

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