Identification of ubiquitin in seminal plasma from Tilapia, oreochromis niloticus

Biomedical Research

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 249-252

  Osaki, Akikazu ^a,b   Okida, Noriyuki ^a   Ishikawa, Katsutoshi ^a   Tokumoto, Mika ^c   Nagahama, Yoshitaka ^c   Lippert, Theodor H ^d   Voelter, Wolfgang ^b   Tokumoto, Toshinobu ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UBIQUITIN;

ARTICLE; COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY; INTRACELLULAR FLUID; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEMINAL PLASMA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TILAPIA;

EID: 0032805683     PISSN: 03886107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2220/biomedres.20.249     Document Type: Article

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