Different exon-intron organizations of the genes for two astacin-like proteases, high choriolytic enzyme (choriolysin H) and low choriolytic enzyme (choriolysin L), the constituents of the fish hatching enzyme

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 237, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 752-758

  Yasumasu, Shigeki ^a   Shimada, Hiraku ^b   Inohaya, Keiji ^a   Yamazaki, Ken ^a   Iuchi, Ichiro ^a   Yasumasu, Ikao ^c   Yamagami, Kenjiro ^a  

^a SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Astacin family; Gene structure; Hatching enzyme; Intron less gene; Teleost

Indexed keywords

LATIPES; ORYZIAS LATIPES; TELEOSTEI;

CHORIOLYSIN H; CHORIOLYSIN L; PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HATCHING; LIVER; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; EXONS; GENES; GENOME; INTRONS; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZIAS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

EID: 0030012873     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.0752p.x     Document Type: Article

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