Molecular cloning of rat and mouse membrane cofactor protein (MCP, CD46): Preferential expression in testis and close linkage between the mouse Mcp and Cr2 genes on distal chromosome 1

Immunogenetics

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 363-371

  Miwa, Takashi ^a   Nonaka, Mayumi ^a   Okada, Noriko ^a   Wakana, Shigeharu ^b   Shiroishi, Toshihiko ^c   Okada, Hidechika ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Chromosome 1; Complement; Membrane cofactor protein; Testis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT RECEPTOR; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MEMBRANE COFACTOR PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 1; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; FERTILIZATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REPRODUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD46; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TESTIS;

EID: 0031728202     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050447     Document Type: Article

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