FGF-2 antisense RNA encodes a nuclear protein with MutT-like antimutator activity

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 177-182

  Li, Audrey W ^a   Too, Catherine K L ^b   Knee, Rai ^a   Wilkinson, Michael ^a,b   Murphy, Paul R ^a,b  

^a Biostatistics   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antisense; FGF; Growth factor; Hepatocyte; MutT

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FRACTIONATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIVER MITOCHONDRION; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LIVER; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; PROTEINS; PYROPHOSPHATASES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, ANTISENSE;

EID: 0030812543     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(97)00148-2     Document Type: Article

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