Chicken ornithine transcarbamylase gene, structure, regulation, and chromosomal assignment: Repetitive sequence motif in intron 3 regulates this enzyme activity

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 962-971

  Shimogiri, Takeshi ^a   Kono, Masanobu ^a,c   Mannen, Hideyuki ^a   Mizutani, Makoto ^b   Tsuji, Soichi ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIPPON INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c MITSUBISHI TANABE PHARMA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chicken; Chromosomal localization; Gene regulation; Gene structure; Ornithine transcarbamylase

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ORNITHINE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 1Q; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE ASSIGNMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; KIDNEY; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEX CHROMOSOME; TATA BOX; UREA CYCLE;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031726318     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a022214     Document Type: Article

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