Testisin, a new human serine proteinase expressed by premeiotic testicular germ cells and lost in testicular germ cell tumors

Cancer Research

Volumn 59, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 3199-3205

  Hooper, John D ^a   Nicol, David L ^b   Dickinson, Joanne L ^a,e   Eyre, Helen J ^c   Scarman, Anthony L ^a   Normyle, John F ^a   Stuttgen, Melanie A ^a   Douglas, Meaghan L ^b   Lakoski Loveland, Kate A ^d   Sutherland, Grant R ^c   Antalis, Toni M ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^f ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SERINE PROTEINASE; TESTISIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 16; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; GERM CELL TUMOR; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPERMATOCYTE; TESTIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GERMINOMA; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REFERENCE VALUES; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SPERMATOZOA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0033168561     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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