Isolation of two novel alternative splicing variants of allograft inflammatory factor-1

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 380, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1333-1336

  Hara, Hirokazu ^a   Ohta, Mitsuhiro ^b   Ohta, Kiyoe ^b   Nishimura, Masataka ^b   Obayashi, Hiroshi ^c   Adachi, Tetsuo ^a  

^a GIFU PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UTANO NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Kyoto Microbiological Institute   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allograft inflammatory factor 1; Alternative splicing; EF hand

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN;

ALLOGRAFT; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; EXON; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; LEUKOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032753422     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.1999.170     Document Type: Article

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