Identification of nine alternatively spliced α2,3-sialyltransferase, ST3Gal IV, transcripts and analysis of their expression by RT-PCR and laser-induced fluorescent capillary electrophoresis (LIF-CE) in twenty-one human tissues

Glycoconjugate Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 759-767

  Grahn, Ammi ^a   Larson, Göran ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Capillary electrophoresis; RT PCR; Sialyltransferase; ST3Gal IV; Transcripts

Indexed keywords

GLYCOCONJUGATE; RNA; SELECTIN; SIALYL LEWIS X ANTIGEN; SIALYLTRANSFERASE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOCYTE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, CAPILLARY; EXONS; FLUORESCENCE; HUMANS; LASERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SIALYLTRANSFERASES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0035497407     PISSN: 02820080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021199300718     Document Type: Article

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