The expanding β4-galactosyltransferase gene family: Messages from the databanks

Glycobiology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 517-526

  Lo, Neng Wen ^a   Shaper, Joel H ^a   Pevsner, Jonathan ^a   Shaper, Nancy L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Est clones; Evolution; Gene duplication; Lactose biosynthesis; Mammary gland

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FETUS; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031777054     PISSN: 09596658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/glycob/8.5.517     Document Type: Article

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