Complex organisation of the 5'-end of the human glycine tRNA synthetase gene

Gene

Volumn 209, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 45-50

  Mudge, S J ^a   Williams, J H ^a   Eyre, H J ^b   Sutherland, G R ^b   Cowan, P J ^a   Power, D A ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Open reading frame; TATA box; Transcription; Translation; TSP

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; GLYCINE; GLYCINE TRANSFER RNA; SYNTHETASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE STRUCTURE; HELA CELL; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SILK; SILKWORM; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BOMBYX; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA PRIMERS; GENOMIC LIBRARY; GLOMERULAR MESANGIUM; GLYCINE-TRNA LIGASE; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; LUNG; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BOMBYX MORI; LEPIDOPTERA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032536842     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00007-9     Document Type: Article

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