Regional and developmental expression of Epm2a gene and its evolutionary conservation

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 283, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1046-1053

  Ganesh, Subramaniam ^a   Agarwala, Kishan Lal ^a   Amano, Kenji ^a   Suzuki, Toshimitsu ^a   Delgado Escueta, Antonio V ^b   Yamakawa, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Dual specificity phosphatase; Epilepsy; Evolution; Expression; Homologue; Lafora's disease; Laforin

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; DNA LIBRARY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MISSENSE MUTATION; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0034805823     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2001.4914     Document Type: Article

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