Genomic structure and expression analysis of the gene encoding a silkworm basic Kunitz-type chymotrypsin inhibitor

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1628, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 71-77

  He, Ningjia ^a   Yakiyama, Masatoshi ^a   Fujii, Hiroshi ^a   Banno, Yutaka ^a   Yamamoto, Kohji ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bombyx mori; Chymotrypsin inhibitor; Gene cloning; Gene expression

Indexed keywords

CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; CHICKEN OVALBUMIN UPSTREAM PROMOTER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; CHYMOTRYPSIN INHIBITOR; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 1;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA PROBE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXON; FAT BODY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILKWORM; SKIN; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TATA BOX; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRACHEA; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BOMBYX; BOMBYX MORI; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0038015464     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4781(03)00118-0     Document Type: Article

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