Multiple promoter and splicing mRNA variants of the epididymis-specific gene EP2

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 421-430

  Fröhlich, Otto ^a,b   Po, Cecilia ^a   Murphy, Tamara ^a   Young, Leona G ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen; Peptide module; Primate; Secretory protein; Sequence

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; EPIDIDYMAL PROTEIN EP2; GENE PRODUCT; MESSENGER RNA; SECRETORY PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; EPIDIDYMIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA SPLICING; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEFENSINS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EPIDIDYMIS; GLYCOPEPTIDES; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0342804468     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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