Molecular cloning and primary structure of a Rhesus (Rh)-like protein from the marine sponge Geodia cydonium

Immunogenetics

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 493-498

  Seack, Jürgen ^a   Pancer, Zeev ^a   Müller, Isabel M ^a   Müller, Werner E G ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD GROUP ANTIGEN; GLYCOPROTEIN; RHESUS ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP RH; BLOOD GROUP RHESUS SYSTEM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPONGE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PORIFERA; RH-HR BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GEODIA CYDONIUM; HYLOBATIDAE; MACACA MULATTA; PAN (APE);

EID: 0030920459     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050310     Document Type: Article

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