Complete cDNA sequences of the DRB6 gene from humans and chimpanzees: A possible model of a stop codon readingthrough mechanism in primates

Immunogenetics

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 843-850

  Moreno Pelayo, Miguel Angel ^a   Fernández Soria, Víctor M ^a   Paz Artal, Estela ^a   Ferre López, Sergio ^a   Rosal, Manuel ^a   Morales, Pablo ^a   Varela, Pilar ^a   Arnaiz Villena, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

DRB6; MHC; Primates; Readingthrough mechanism; Selenocysteine

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HLA B ANTIGEN; HLA G ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA; SELENOCYSTEINE; SELENOPROTEIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CYTOFLUOROMETRY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RETROVIRUS; RNA TRANSLATION; STOP CODON;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CODON, TERMINATOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 4; MAMMALIA; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0032809369     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050563     Document Type: Article

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