cDNA cloning and chromosomal localization of the genes encoding the α- and β-subunits of human rab geranylgeranyl transferase: The 3' end of the α-subunit gene overlaps with the transglutaminase 1 gene promoter

Genomics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 133-140

  Van Bokhoven, Hans ^a   Rawson, Robert B ^b   Merkx, Gerard F M ^a   Cremers, Frans P M ^a   Seabra, Miguel C ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GERANYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN GLUTAMINE GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; RAB PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 14Q; CHROMOSOME 1P; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENE EXPRESSION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

EID: 0030463360     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1996.0608     Document Type: Article

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