Selenoprotein W cDNAs from Five Species of Animals

Biomedical and Environmental Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 190-197

  Whanger, P D ^a   Vendeland, S C ^a   Gu, Q P ^a   Beilstein, M A ^a   Ream, L W ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PROTEIN; SELENOPROTEIN; SELENOPROTEIN W; SEPW1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MACACA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHEEP; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STOP CODON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON, TERMINATOR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEINS; SELENOPROTEIN W; SELENOPROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SHEEP; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031225670     PISSN: 08953988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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