Cloning and characterization of a novel human gene, TM4SF6, encoding a protein belonging to the transmembrane 4 superfamily, and mapped to Xq22

Genomics

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 240-242

  Maeda, Kenji ^a   Matsuhashi, Sachiko ^a   Hori, Katsuji ^a   Xin, Zhenghan ^a   Mukai, Tsunehiro ^a   Tabuchi, Kazuo ^a   Egashira, Masayuki ^b   Niikawa, Norio ^b  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TETRASPANIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME XQ; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GLYCOSYLATION; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032169899     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1998.5415     Document Type: Article

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