Cloning and characterization of a curcin gene encoding a ribosome inactivating protein from Jatropha curcas

DNA Sequence - Journal of DNA Sequencing and Mapping

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 311-317

  Lin, Juan ^a,b   Li, Yun Xiang ^b   Zhou, Xuan Wei ^a,c   Tang, Ke Xuan ^a   Chen, Fang ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHAANXI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Curcin; Genomic cloning; Genomic walker technology; Jatropha curcas; Ribosome inactivating protein

Indexed keywords

ALBUMINOID; PRIMER DNA; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITOR; RIBOSOME INACTIVATING PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CURCIN GENE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETICS; GENOMIC WALKER TECHNOLOGY; INTRON; JATROPHA; JATROPHA CURCAS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLANT; POLYADENYLATION; RIBOSOME; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TATA BOX;

ALBUMINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; JATROPHA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; RIBOSOMES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EMBRYOPHYTA; JATROPHA; JATROPHA CURCAS;

EID: 0043173646     PISSN: 10425179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1042517031000119348     Document Type: Article

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