MAGE-11 protein is highly conserved in higher organisms and located predominantly in the nucleus

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 762-766

  Jurk, Marion ^a   Kremmer, Elisabeth ^b   Schwarz, Ursula ^a   Förster, Reinhold ^c   Winnacker, Ernst Ludwig ^a,d  

^a Inst F Biochem der Univ   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENE PRODUCT; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; TUMOR ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME XQ; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAMMAL CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PRECIPITIN TESTS; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032473490     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19980302)75:5<762::AID-IJC16>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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