Identification and characterization of a novel splice variant of mouse and rat cytochrome b5/cytochrome b5 reductase

Genomics

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 425-438

  Curry, Benjamin J ^a   Roman, Shaun D ^a   Wallace, Ceanne A ^a   Scott, Rebecca ^a   Miriami, Elana ^b   Aitken, R John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Cytochrome b5; Cytochrome b5 reductase; Flavin adenine dinucleotide; Fusion protein; Testis

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B5; CYTOCHROME B5 REDUCTASE; FLAVINE ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERM LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPECIES; TESTIS;

EID: 1242271345     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2003.08.020     Document Type: Article

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