Characterization of the Fugu rubripes NLK and FN5 genes flanking the NF1 (Neurofibromatosis type 1) gene in the 5' direction and mapping of the human counterparts

Gene

Volumn 251, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 63-71

  Kehrer Sawatzki, Hildegard ^a   Moschgath, Elke ^a   Maier, Christiane ^a   Legius, Eric ^b   Elgar, Greg ^c   Krone, Winfrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UK Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

17q11.2; Comparative genetics; Fugu rubripes; Nemo like kinase; NF1

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME 17; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; FUGU RUBRIPES; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 11; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; DNA; FEMALE; FISHES; GENES; HUMANS; HYBRID CELLS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROFIBROMIN 1; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; TAKIFUGU; TAKIFUGU RUBRIPES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034643805     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00188-8     Document Type: Article

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