Molecular Cloning of Guinea Pig Membrane Cofactor Protein: Preferential Expression in Testis

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 157, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 4946-4952

  Hosokawa, Masato ^a   Nonaka, Mayumi ^a   Okada, Noriko ^a   Nonaka, Masaru ^a   Okada, Hidechika ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD46 PROTEIN, HUMAN; COMPLEMENT INHIBITOR; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; MEMBRANE COFACTOR PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GUINEA PIG; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD46; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPLEMENT INACTIVATOR PROTEINS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION; GUINEA PIGS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0030456737     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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