Cloning of human polyubiquitin cDNAs and a ubiquitin-binding assay involving its in vitro translation product

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 35-39

  Kim, Nam Soon ^a   Yamaguchi, Tomoko ^a   Sekine, Shingo ^a   Saeki, Mihoro ^b   Iwamuro, Shawichi ^b   Kato, Seishi ^a,b  

^a SAGAMI CHEMICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

cDNA; Human; In vitro translation; Polymorphism; Ubiquitin

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; POLYUBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CLONE; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ISOTOPE LABELING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RETICULOCYTE; RNA TRANSLATION; TANDEM REPEAT;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0031848176     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a022093     Document Type: Article

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