Identification of chicken and C. elegans fibulin-1 homologs and characterization of the C. elegans fibulin-1 gene

Matrix Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 8-9, 1998, Pages 635-646

  Barth, Jeremy L ^a   Argraves, Kelley M ^b   Roark, Eileen F ^a   Little, Charles D ^a   Argraves, W Scott ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b HOLLAND LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Epidermal growth factor like repeats; Extracellular matrix; Gene structure

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; FIBULIN; SCLEROPROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHICKEN; COSMID; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DANIO RERIO; GALLUS GALLUS; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032433523     PISSN: 0945053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0945-053X(98)90114-7     Document Type: Article

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