Cloning and expression of a sialic acid-binding lectin from the snail Cepaea hortensis

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 215-221

  Gerlach, Dieter ^a   Schlott, Bernhard ^b   Schmidt, Karl Herman ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cepaea hortensis; Cloning; Lectin; Sequencing; Sialic acid; Snail

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LECTIN; MESSENGER RNA; PRIMER RNA; RNA; SIALIC ACID BINDING LECTIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RABBIT; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SNAIL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESCHERICHIA; GENE EXPRESSION; LECTINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SNAILS;

EID: 1642338170     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-8244(03)00367-5     Document Type: Article

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