Identification of two alternate splice variants of a novel serine protease expressed in steroidogenic tissues

Endocrine Research

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 339-348

  Omer, Selma ^a   Lomthaisong, Khomsorn ^a   Bicknell, Andrew B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTIBODY; NUCLEOTIDE; PREGNENOLONE; PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN; CELL VACUOLE; CLONING; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COS CELLS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PREGNENOLONE; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0036932848     PISSN: 07435800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/ERC-120016806     Document Type: Conference Paper

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