Complement C1r and C1s genes are duplicated in the mouse: Differential expression generates alternative isomorphs in the liver and in the male reproductive system

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 371, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 631-640

  Garnier, Gérard ^a   Circolo, Antonella ^b   Xu, Yuanyuan ^b   Volanakis, John E ^a,b  

^a BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH CENTER ALEXANDER FLEMING   (Greece)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Coagulating gland; Mouse chromosome 6; Prostate; Serine protease

Indexed keywords

CATALYST ACTIVITY; ENZYMES; HUMAN ENGINEERING; TISSUE;

PROTEASES;

GENES;

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1R; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1S; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RNA; SERINE PROTEINASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 6; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; REPRODUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPLEMENT C1R; COMPLEMENT C1S; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXONS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENITALIA, MALE; HUMANS; INTRONS; ISOENZYMES; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0038222538     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20021555     Document Type: Article

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