Cloning and expression of a chicken α-amylase gene

Gene

Volumn 192, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 261-270

  Benkel, Bernhard F ^a   Nguyen, Thuy ^a   Ahluwalia, Nav ^a   Benkel, Kaarina I ^b   Hickey, Donal A ^b  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gene structure; Nucleotide sequence; Transgenic yeast

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME RELEASE; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FEMALE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; YEAST;

ALPHA-AMYLASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICKENS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PANCREAS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0030919607     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00102-9     Document Type: Article

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