Identification and characterization of kraken, a gene encoding a putative hydrolytic enzyme in Drosophila melanogaster

Gene

Volumn 222, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 195-201

  Edwin Chan, H Y ^a   Harris, Stephen J ^b   O'Kane, Cahir J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cDNA cloning; Detoxification; Gastric caeca; Intron exon structure; ninaA; P1 genomic mapping; Serine hydrolase

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DETOXIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME PURIFICATION; EXON; HYDROLYSIS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRON; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENES, INSECT; HYDROLASES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0345561584     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00497-1     Document Type: Article

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