Cloning of a novel murine gene Sfmbt, Scm-related gene containing four mbt domains, structurally belonging to the Polycomb group of genes

Gene

Volumn 248, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 127-135

  Usui, Hiroshi ^a   Ichikawa, Tomio ^a   Kobayashi, Kazuo ^a   Kumanishi, Toshiro ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CDNA; Chromosomal localization; Exon intron organization; Mbt repeats; SPM domain

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; REPETITIVE DNA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CHROMOSOME 14; EXON; GENE MAPPING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RAT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXONS; FEMALE; GENES; INTRONS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MURIDAE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 0034595384     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00131-1     Document Type: Article

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