Phosphatidylethanolamine N-methyltransferase from liver

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Lipids and Lipid Metabolism

Volumn 1348, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 142-150

  Vance, Dennis E ^a   Walkey, Christopher J ^a   Cui, Zheng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cDNA; Cell division; CTP:phosphocholine cytidylyltransferase; Gene structure; Hepatocyte; mRNA; Phosphatidylcholine; Phosphatidylethanolamine; Phosphatidylethanolamine N methyltransferase

Indexed keywords

ISOENZYME; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL DIVISION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; DIET; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIVER; LIVER CELL; MEMBRANE BINDING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHOLIPID SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; LIVER; METHYLTRANSFERASES; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0031552936     PISSN: 00052760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-2760(97)00108-2     Document Type: Review

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