Rat cerebral serine racemase: Amino acid deletion and truncation at carboxy terminus

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 349, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 111-114

  Konno, Ryuichi ^a  

^a DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amino acid deletion; cDNA; Cerebrum; D Serine; Northern hybridization; Rat; Serine racemase; Truncation

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; RACEMASE; SERINE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ISOMERASE; SERINE RACEMASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ANIMAL; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RACEMASES AND EPIMERASES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0142058195     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00801-2     Document Type: Article

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