Cloning and characterization of an agglutinin gene from Arisaema lobatum

Bioscience Reports

Volumn 25, Issue 5-6, 2005, Pages 345-362

  Lin, Juan ^a,c   Zhou, Xuanwei ^b   Pang, Yongzhen ^a   Gao, Han ^a   Fei, Jiong ^b   Shen, Guo An ^b   Wang, Jin ^a   Li, Xinsheng ^c   Sun, Xiaofen ^a   Tang, Kexuan ^a,b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHAANXI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Arisaema lobatum; Arisaema lobatum agglutinin (ALA); cDNA cloning; Genomic walker technology; Mannose binding lectin; RACE

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTININ; AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LECTIN; MANNOSE BINDING LECTIN; PROPROPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGGLUTININ GENE; ALLIACEAE; AMARYLLIDACEAE; ARACEAE; ARISAEMA LOBATUM; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BROMELIACEAE; BUD; CHINESE HERB; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GALANTHUS NIVALIS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CODE; INTRON; IRIDACEAE; LILLACEAE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PEST CONTROL; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT TUBER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TATA BOX;

AGGLUTININS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARISAEMA; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; LECTINS; MANNOSE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ALLIACEAE; AMARYLLIDACEAE; ARACEAE; ARISAEMA LOBATUM; BROMELIACEAE; GALANTHUS NIVALIS; IRIDACEAE;

EID: 28244482576     PISSN: 01448463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10540-005-2895-4     Document Type: Article

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