Cloning and characterization of the full-length cDNA and genomic sequences encoding murine acid ceramidase

Genomics

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 267-274

  Li, Chi Ming ^a   Hong, Seung Beom ^a,b   Kopal, Guido ^c   He, Xingxuan ^a   Linke, Thomas ^c   Hou, Wu Shiun ^a   Koch, Jürgen ^c   Gatt, Shimon ^d   Sandhoff, Konrad ^c   Schuchman, Edward H ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Korean Adv Inst of Sci and T   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLSPHINGOSINE DEACYLASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME CONFORMATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

FELIS CATUS; MURINAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 0032104250     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1998.5334     Document Type: Article

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