Cloning and characterization of a novel human gene encoding a zinc finger protein with 25 fingers

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1489, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 405-412

  Li, Xiang An ^a   Kokame, Koichi ^a   Okubo, Kousaku ^b   Shimokado, Kentaro ^a   Tsukamoto, Yoshitane ^a   Miyata, Toshiyuki ^a   Kato, Hisao ^a   Yutani, Chikao ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

cDNA; Human; KRAB; Zinc finger protein

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; SERUM; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 7; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0032738409     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4781(99)00206-7     Document Type: Article

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