Cloning, characterization and subcellular localization of a gene encoding a human ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme (E2) homologous to the Arabidopsis thaliana UBC-16 gene product

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 11, Issue 2 P.1199-1590, 2006, Pages 1500-1507

  Yin, Gang ^a   Ji, Chaoneng ^a   Wu, Tong ^a   Shen, Zhouliang ^a   Xu, Xin ^a   Xie, Yi ^a   Mao, Yumin ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

8q13; 8q21.1; Chromosome; Class I; NLS; Nuclear Localization Signal; Polymerase chain reaction; Reverse transcription; RT PCR; Subcellular Localization; Ubiquitin Conjugating Enzyme (UBC OR E2)

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 32844459257     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/1899     Document Type: Article

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