Activities of glycolipid glycosyltransferases and sialidases during the early development of Xenopus laevis

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 166, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 117-124

  Gornati, Rosalba ^a   Basu, Subhash ^b   Bernardini, Giovanni ^a   Rizzo, Angela M ^a   Rossi, Federica ^a   Berra, Bruno ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c School of Pharmacy   (Italy)

Author keywords

Development; Glycolipids; Glycosyltransferases; Sialidases; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

GLYCOLIPID; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; SIALIDASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; GANGLIOSIDES; GLYCOLIPIDS; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; NEURAMINIDASE; SIALYLTRANSFERASES; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031058753     PISSN: 03008177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006891414663     Document Type: Article

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