Two polysialic acid synthases, mouse ST8Sia II and IV, synthesize different degrees of polysialic acids on different substrate glycoproteins in mouse neuroblastoma Neuro2a cells

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1265-1273

  Kojima, Naoya ^a   Tachida, Yuriko ^a   Tsuji, Shuichi ^a  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Neural cell adhesion molecule; Neuroblastoma cells; Polysialic acid; Polysialic acid synthase; Sialyltransferase

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; METHIONINE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; POLYSIALIC ACID; SULFUR 35; SYNTHETASE; TRITIUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ANION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; DNA TRANSFECTION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOUSE; NEUROBLASTOMA CELL; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA; TRITIUM;

EID: 0031461649     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a021893     Document Type: Article

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