Mouse β-galactoside α2,3-sialyltransferases: Comparison of in vitro substrate specificities and tissue specific expression

Glycobiology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 469-479

  Kono, Mari ^a   Ohyama, Yuji ^a   Lee, Young Choon ^a,b   Hamamoto, Toshiro ^a   Kojima, Naoya ^a   Tsuji, Shuichi ^a  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOENZYME; SIALYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COLON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART; IN VITRO STUDY; KIDNEY; LIVER; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVARY GLAND; SPLEEN; TESTIS; THYMUS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COS CELLS; DISACCHARIDES; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCOLIPIDS; ISOENZYMES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SIALYLTRANSFERASES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030974649     PISSN: 09596658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/glycob/7.4.469     Document Type: Article

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