A proposed nomenclature system for the cytosolic sulfotransferase (SULT) superfamily

Pharmacogenetics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 199-211

  Blanchard, Rebecca L ^a   Freimuth, Robert R ^b   Buck, Jochen ^c   Weinshilboum, Richard M ^b   Coughtrie, Michael W H ^d  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alleles; Cytosolic sulfotransferases; Nomenclature; SULT

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ISOENZYME; SULFOTRANSFERASE;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CYTOSOL; ENZYME ANALYSIS; EUKARYOTE; EVALUATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INSECT; INTERNET; MAMMAL; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PLANT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; CYTOSOL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENOME; HUMANS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SULFOTRANSFERASES; TERMINOLOGY;

EUKARYOTA; INSECTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 1642268315     PISSN: 0960314X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00008571-200403000-00009     Document Type: Article

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