Complete primary structure of two variant forms of human type XVIII collagen and tissue-specific differences in the expression of the corresponding transcripts

Matrix Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 319-328

  Saarela, Janna ^a   Ylikärppä, Ritva ^a   Rehn, Marko ^a   Purmonen, Sami ^a   Pihlajaniemi, Taina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Alternative transcripts; Collagen; Connective tissue

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE 18; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN HYDROLYSATE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY; LIVER; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OVARY; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROTEIN VARIANT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SMALL INTESTINE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0031962121     PISSN: 0945053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0945-053X(98)90003-8     Document Type: Article

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