Discovery of new human β-defensins using a genomics-based approach

Gene

Volumn 263, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 211-218

  Peng Jia, Hong ^a   Schutte, Brian C ^a   Schudy, Andreas ^c   Linzmeier, Rose ^d   Guthmiller, Janet M ^b   Johnson, Georgia K ^b   Tack, Brian F ^a   Mitros, Joseph P ^a   Rosenthal, Andre ^c   Ganz, Tomas ^d   McCray Jr , Paul B ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial artificial chromosome; Chromosome 8; Contiguous sequence; Interleukin 1 ; NF B

Indexed keywords

BETA DEFENSIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CONTIG; DEFENSIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 8P; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FETUS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-DEFENSINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CONTIG MAPPING; DNA; EXONS; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES; GENOMIC LIBRARY; GENOMICS; GLYCOPEPTIDES; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0035941493     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00569-2     Document Type: Article

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