Unexpected variation in unique features of the lens-specific type I cytokeratin CP49

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 225-235

  Binkley, P A ^a   Hess, J ^a   Casselman, J ^a   FitzGerald, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOKERATIN; CYTOKERATIN CP49; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; LENS; LENS FIBER; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROUT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CATTLE; CHICKENS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EYE PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; INTRONS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0036139632     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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