Cloning of the semenogelin II gene of the rhesus monkey. Duplications of 360 bp extend the coding region in man, rhesus monkey and baboon

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 245, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 25-31

  Ulvsbäck, Magnus ^a   Lundwall, Åke ^a,b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coagulation; Evolution; Primate; Semen; Transglutaminase

Indexed keywords

SECRETORY PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HYBRIDIZATION; INTRON; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RHESUS MONKEY; SEMINAL VESICLE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALIA; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; MACACA MULATTA; MARMOSETS; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PLATYRRHINI; PRIMATES; SAGUINUS IMPERATOR; SAGUINUS OEDIPUS;

EID: 0030999261     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1997.00025.x     Document Type: Article

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