A major glycoprotein of Xenopus egg vitelline envelope, gp41, is a frog homolog of mammalian ZP3

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 405-417

  Kubo, Hideo ^a   Kawano, Takehiro ^a,b   Tsubuki, Satoshi ^a   Kawashima, Seiichi ^a   Katagiri, Chiaki ^c   Suzuki, Akemi ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coelomic envelope; Processing; Vitelline envelope; Xenopus oocytes

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN GP 41; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OOCYTE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VITELLINE MEMBRANE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; MAMMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0030766728     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169X.1997.t01-3-00001.x     Document Type: Article

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