Isolation and characterization of the human and mouse homologues (SUPT4H and Supt4h) of the yeast SPT4 gene

Genomics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 368-375

  Chiang, Pei Wen ^a,e   Wang, Su Qing ^a   Smithivas, Paul ^b   Song, Woo Joo ^b   Crombez, Eric ^a   Akhtar, Adnan ^a   Im, Richard ^a   Greenfield, Jason ^a   Ramamoorthy, Saravanan ^a   Van Keuren, Margaret ^b   Blackburn, C Clare ^c   Tsai, Chun Hui ^d   Kurnit, David M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENE PRODUCT; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SUPPRESSOR GENE;

MAMMALIA; MURINAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030585741     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1996.0299     Document Type: Article

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