Tlk, a novel evolutionarily conserved murine serine threonine kinase, encodes multiple testis transcripts

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 392-405

  Shalom, Sarah ^a   Don, Jeremy ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Alternative; Mouse; Polyadenylation; Spermatogenesis; Tousled like kinase

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

AGING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0033040902     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199904)52:4<392::AID-MRD8>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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