Evidence for a mouse brain-specific variant of α-tubulin

Cell Research

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 315-325

  Kong, Ling Wei ^a   Ding, Xiao Yan ^a   Kitani, Hiroshi ^b   Shiurba, Robert ^c   Jing, Nai He ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^c Misato Plaheat Mfg Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain specific tubulin; Nestin; Post trans lational modification

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; NESTIN; TUBULIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL CULTURE; CROSS REACTION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNOLOGY; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; OLFACTORY BULB; RABBIT; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STEM CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CROSS REACTIONS; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; FEMALE; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; OLFACTORY BULB; RABBITS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STEM CELLS; TUBULIN; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033251222     PISSN: 10010602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.cr.7290030     Document Type: Article

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