Cloning and chromosomal mapping of a gene isolated from thymic stromal cells encoding a new mouse type II membrane serine protease, epithin, containing four LDL receptor modules and two CUB domains

Immunogenetics

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 420-428

  Kim, Moon G ^a   Chen, Chuan ^a   Lyu, Myung Soo ^a   Cho, Eun Gyung ^b   Park, Dongeun ^b   Kozak, Christine ^a   Schwartz, Ronald H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

CUB domain; LDLR domain; Serine protease; Thymic stroma; Type II membrane protein

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; MEMBRANE ENZYME; SERINE PROTEINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME 9; CHROMOSOME MAP; EPITHELIUM CELL; FETUS; INTESTINE; KIDNEY; LUNG; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCID MOUSE; STROMA CELL; THYMUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; MICE; MICE, SCID; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECEPTORS, LDL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; STROMAL CELLS; THYMUS GLAND; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0032923230     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050515     Document Type: Article

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