Cloning and expression of an α-2,8-polysialyltransferase (STX) from Xenopus laevis

Glycobiology

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 771-777

  Kudo, Mariko ^a   Takayama, Eiji ^b   Tashiro, Kosuke ^a,e   Fukamachi, Hiroshi ^a   Nakata, Takahiro ^b   Tadakuma, Takushi ^b   Kitajima, Ken ^c   Inoue, Yasuo ^d   Shiokawa, Koichiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY   (Taiwan)

^e KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Development; Polysialic acid; Polysialyltransferase; STX; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; POLYSIALIC ACID; SIALYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CELL STRAIN COS1; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EYE; HEART; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COS CELLS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIALYLTRANSFERASES; TRANSFECTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031847389     PISSN: 09596658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/glycob/8.8.771     Document Type: Article

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