Genomic structure and chromosomal location of the mouse macrophage C-type lectin gene

Immunogenetics

Volumn 50, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 67-70

  Tsuiji, Makoto ^a   Fujimori, Mayuko ^a   Seldin, Michael F ^b   Taketo, Makoto M ^a   Irimura, Tatsuro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

C type lectin; Carbohydrate recognition; Chromosome 11; Genomic structure; Macrophage

Indexed keywords

LECTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 11; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE STRUCTURE; INTRON; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASIALOGLYCOPROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EXONS; GALACTOSE; GENOMIC LIBRARY; INTRONS; LECTINS; LECTINS, C-TYPE; MACROPHAGES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA SPLICING;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0032867311     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050687     Document Type: Article

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