Cloning and characterization of the rat Crisp-1 gene

Gene

Volumn 240, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 279-288

  Klemme, LuAnn M ^a   Roberts, Kenneth P ^a   Hoffman, Laura B ^a   Ensrud, Kathy M ^a   Siiteri, Jon E ^a   Hamilton, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acidic epididymal glycoprotein; AEG; Epididymis; Protein DE

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DNA TEMPLATE; EPIDIDYMIS; EXON; GENE SEQUENCE; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLICEOSOME; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; EPIDIDYMAL SECRETORY PROTEINS; EXONS; GENE DOSAGE; GENES; INTRONS; MALE; METALLOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TESTICULAR HORMONES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032734972     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00377-7     Document Type: Article

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