Identification of two Xenopus laevis genes, xMCM2 and xCDC46, with sequence homology to MCM genes involved in DNA replication

Gene

Volumn 175, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 71-75

  Miyake, Sanae ^a   Saito, Izumu ^b   Kobayashi, Hideki ^c   Yamashita, Shigeru ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

MCM gene family; Polymerase chain reaction; Replication licensing factor; Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DNA REPLICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 1842278457     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(96)00122-9     Document Type: Article

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