Cloning and characterization of the human Calmegin gene encoding putative testis-specific chaperone

Gene

Volumn 204, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 159-163

  Tanaka, Hiromitsu ^a   Ikawa, Masahito ^a   Tsuchida, Junji ^a   Nozaki, Masami ^a   Suzuki, Mikio ^b   Fujiwara, Tsutomu ^b   Okabe, Masaru ^a   Nishimune, Yoshitake ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calnexin; cDNA sequence; Germ cell; Human genome mapping

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CALNEXIN; CHAPERONE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME 4Q; CHROMOSOME MAP; CODING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GERM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPERM; TESTIS CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CALNEXIN; CHAPERONINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 4; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; METAPHASE; MICE; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031578912     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00537-4     Document Type: Article

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