Molecular cloning of a peptidase against N-acetylaspartylglutamate from a rat hippocampal cDNA library

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2270-2277

  Bzdega, Tomasz ^a   Turi, Thomas ^b   Wroblewska, Barbara ^a   She, Dewei ^a,d   Chung, Hye Sun ^c   Kim, Hyun ^c   Neale, Joseph H ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PFIZER GLOBAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cloning; Excitatory transmitter; Glutamate; N Acetylaspartyl grutamate; Peptidase

Indexed keywords

N ACETYLASPARTYLGLUTAMIC ACID; PEPTIDASE; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHO CELL; DNA LIBRARY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030658978     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.1997.69062270.x     Document Type: Article

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