The cloning of a rapidly evolving seminal-vesicle-transcribed gene encoding the major clot-forming protein of mouse semen

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 235, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 424-430

  Lundwall, Ake ^a,b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Clot; Evolution; Semen; Semenoclotin; Transglutaminase

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; EVOLUTION; EXONS; GENES; HUMANS; ISOELECTRIC POINT; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEINS; RATS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEMEN; SEMINAL VESICLES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030060587     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.00424.x     Document Type: Article

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