Genomic structure of the rat major AP endonuclease gene (Apex) with an adjacent putative O-Sialoglycoprotease gene (Prsmg1/ Gcpl1) and a processed apex pseudogene (Apexp1)

Acta Medica Okayama

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 245-252

  Yao, Ming ^a   Akiyama, Kosuke ^a   Tan, Yunshan ^a   Hossain Sarker, Altaf ^a   Ikeda, Shogo ^b   Shafiul Alam, Shahjalal ^a   Tsutsui, Ken ^a   Yoshida, Michihiro C ^c   Seki, Shuji ^a,d  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Chugoku Junior College   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apex pseudogene; Apurinic apyrimidinic endonuclease; Chromosomal mapping; Genomic sequencing; Glycoprotease

Indexed keywords

APEX1 PROTEIN, RAT; DNA (APURINIC OR APYRIMIDINIC SITE) LYASE; LYASE; METALLOPROTEINASE; O SIALOGLYCOPROTEIN ENDOPEPTIDASE; O-SIALOGLYCOPROTEIN ENDOPEPTIDASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PSEUDOGENE; RAT; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CARBON-OXYGEN LYASES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-(APURINIC OR APYRIMIDINIC SITE) LYASE; GENOME; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PSEUDOGENES; RATS;

EID: 0033253471     PISSN: 0386300X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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