Isolation and characterization of the human UGT2B15 gene, localized within a cluster of UGT2B genes and pseudogenes on chromosome 4

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 295, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 489-504

  Turgeon, David ^a   Carrier, Jean Sébastien ^a   Lévesque, Éric ^a   Beatty, Barbara G ^c   Bélanger, Alain ^a,b   Hum, Dean W ^a  

^a Laboratory of Molecular Endocrinology   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

LNCaP; Prostate; Steroid metabolism; UDP Glucuronosyltransferase; UGT2B genes

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 4; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DNA FLANKING REGION; EXON; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GLUCURONIDATION; HUMAN; INTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE;

EID: 0034695410     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.3374     Document Type: Article

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