Cloning and sequencing of complement component C9 and its linkage to DOC-2 in the pufferfish Fugu rubripes

Gene

Volumn 200, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 203-211

  Yeo, Giles S H ^a   Elgar, Greg ^b   Sandford, Richard ^a   Brenner, Sydney ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UK HGMP Resource Centre   (United Kingdom)

^c Molecular Sciences Research Institute Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

C6; C7; C8; Evolution; Gene cluster; Synteny

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C9;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 5P; CHROMOSOME 9Q; COSMID; FISH; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTENY; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ADAPTOR PROTEINS, VESICULAR TRANSPORT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 5; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 9; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPLEMENT C9; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; COSMIDS; EXONS; FISHES; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; HUMANS; INTRONS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0030729608     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00423-X     Document Type: Article

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