The male seahorse synthesizes and secretes a novel C-type lectin into the brood pouch during early pregnancy

FEBS Journal

Volumn 272, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1221-1235

  Melamed, Philippa ^a   Xue, Yangkui ^a   Poon, Jia Fe David ^a   Wu, Qiang ^a   Xie, Huangming ^a   Yeo, Julie ^a   Foo, Tet Wei John ^a   Chua, Hui Kheng ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

C type lectin; cDNA library; Hippocampus comes; Male pregnancy

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LECTIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; DNA LIBRARY; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMAGGLUTINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEAHORSE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTROPHORESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALLOSTERIC SITE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; HEMAGGLUTINATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LECTINS, C-TYPE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEOMICS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SMEGMAMORPHA;

EID: 14644425320     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2005.04556.x     Document Type: Article

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