The MUC family: An obituary

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 126-131

  Dekker, Jan ^a   Rossen, John W A ^a   Büller, Hans A ^a   Einerhand, Alexandra W C ^a  

^a SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; MUCIN; MUCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL SURFACE; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE NUMBER; HUMAN; MUCUS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NOMENCLATURE; ORGAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMANS; MUCINS; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

EID: 0036495626     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-0004(01)02052-7     Document Type: Review

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