Cloning and in vitro expression of rat lecithin:cholesterol acyltransferase

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Lipids and Lipid Metabolism

Volumn 1346, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 207-211

  Wang, Jingchuan ^a   Gebre, Abraham K ^a   Anderson, Richard A ^a   Parks, John S ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholesteryl ester formation; Cloning; Phospholipase A2 activity; Rat strain

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE STEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; LIVER; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL ESTERS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; COS CELLS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEINS, HDL; LIVER; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE-STEROL O-ACYLTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031583359     PISSN: 00052760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-2760(97)00055-6     Document Type: Article

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