Genes for intermediate filament proteins and the draft sequence of the human genome: Novel keratin genes and a suprisingly high number of pseudogenes related to keratin genes 8 and 18

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 114, Issue 14, 2001, Pages 2569-2575

  Hesse, M ^a   Magin, T M ^a   Weber, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disease; Human genome; Intermediate filament proteins; Keratins; Lamins; Neurofilament proteins; Pseudogenes

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; KERATIN; KERATIN 18; KERATIN 8; KERATIN TYPE 2; MESSENGER RNA; MUSCLE PROTEIN; PANCREATIC KERATIN 23; SYNCOILIN; SYNEMIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME 12; CHROMOSOME 17; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDERMIS; GENE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; HAIR FOLLICLE; HUMAN; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PANCREAS; PARASITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOGENE; SCREENING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; KERATIN-1; KERATIN-8; KERATINS; LAMINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOGENES; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0034907507     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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