Localization, expression and genomic structure of the gene encoding the human serine protease testisin

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1492, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 63-71

  Hooper, John D ^a   Bowen, Natalie ^a   Marshall, Heidi ^a   Cullen, Lara M ^a   Sood, Raman ^b   Daniels, Rachael ^c   Stuttgen, Melanie A ^a   Normyle, John F ^a   Higgs, Douglas R ^c   Kastner, Daniel L ^b   Ogbourne, Steven M ^a   Pera, Martin F ^d   Jazwinska, Elizabeth C ^a   Antalis, Toni M ^a  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Premeiotic spermatocyte; PRSS21; Serine protease; Testis; Testisin; Tumor suppressor

Indexed keywords

SERINE PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 16; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPERMATOCYTE; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 16; COSMIDS; DNA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENES, REGULATOR; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA PRECURSORS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0034697749     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4781(00)00071-3     Document Type: Article

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