Cloning and characterization of a cDNA coding for Astacus embryonic astacin, a member of the astacin family of metalloproteases from the crayfish Astacus astacus

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 253, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 796-803

  Geier, Gebhard ^a   Zwilling, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Astacin; Astacus astacus; Gene expression; Hatching enzyme; Metalloprotease

Indexed keywords

ASTACIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CRAYFISH; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; ASTACOIDEA; ASTACUS; ASTACUS ASTACUS; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; ECHINOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA; LATIPES; ORYZIAS LATIPES; PHASIANIDAE; TELEOSTEI; XENOPUS;

EID: 0032079907     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1998.2530796.x     Document Type: Article

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