The mouse Plk gene: Structural characterization, chromosomal localization and identification of a processed Plk pseudogene

Gene

Volumn 198, Issue 2 JAN, 1997, Pages 329-339

  Clay, Fiona J ^a   Ernst, Matthias R ^a   Trueman, John W H ^b   Flegg, Robert ^a   Dunn, Ashley R ^a  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gene structure; Parsimony analysis; polo subfamily; Protein serine threonine kinase

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; EXON; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PSEUDOGENE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TATA BOX;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EXONS; GENES; HUMANS; INTRONS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PSEUDOGENES; RATS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030666750     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(97)00335-1     Document Type: Article

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