Loss of the signature six carboxyl amino acid tail from ovine interferon-tau does not affect biological activity

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1463-1468

  Ealy, Alan D ^a   Alexenko, Andrei P ^a   Keisler, Duane H ^a   Roberts, R Michael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; BETA INTERFERON; OMEGA INTERFERON; TAU INTERFERON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CORPUS LUTEUM; FEMALE; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; CORPUS LUTEUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE I; KIDNEY; MUTAGENESIS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SERPINS; SHEEP; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVIDAE; BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; OVIS; OVIS ARIES; UNGULATA;

EID: 0031840659     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod58.6.1463     Document Type: Article

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