Identification of a Novel MHC Class I Gene, Mamu-AG, Expressed in the Placenta of a Primate with an Inactivated G Locus

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 159, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 3311-3321

  Boyson, Jonathan E ^a   Iwanaga, Kristen K ^a   Golos, Thaddeus G ^b   Watkins, David I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLYCOPROTEIN; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MESSENGER RNA;

ALLELE; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CYTOPLASM; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MACACA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PEDIGREE; PLACENTA; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; PSEUDOGENE; TROPHOBLAST;

ALLELES; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CYTOPLASM; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, MHC CLASS I; GLYCOPROTEINS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEDIGREE; PLACENTA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PSEUDOGENES; RNA, MESSENGER; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 0031252318     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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