Identification of new human cadherin genes using a combination of protein motif search and gene finding methods

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 337, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 307-317

  Höng, Julia C ^a   Ivanov, Nikolai V ^a   Hodor, Paul ^b   Xia, Menghang ^b   Wei, Nan ^b   Blevins, Richard ^b   Gerhold, David ^b   Borodovsky, Mark ^a   Liu, Yuan ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Aa, amino acids; Cadherin protein family; EGF, epidermal growth factor; EST, expressed sequence tag; Gene finding; Human genome; Protein domain; Protein motif search

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CADHERIN; PROTEIN FAT J; PROTEIN PCDH J; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CDH J GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FAT J GENE; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRON; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PCDH J GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 18544395824     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2004.01.026     Document Type: Article

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