Cloning, tissue expression, and mapping of a human photolyase homolog with similarity to plant blue-light receptors

Genomics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 177-182

  Van Der Spek, P J ^a   Kobayashi, K ^b   Bootsma, D ^a   Takao, M ^b   Eker, A P M ^a   Yasui, A ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DEOXYRIBODIPYRIMIDINE PHOTOLYASE; DNA; GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN; PYRIMIDINE DIMER; RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 12Q; DNA REPAIR; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIGHT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0030588098     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1996.0539     Document Type: Article

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