Amino acid sequence of the Pekingese dog prion protein gene

Xenotransplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 471-474

  Wu, Changde ^a,b   Pang, Wanyong ^c   Yang, Jianmin ^a   Zhou, Xiangmei ^a   Zhao, Deming ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHENYANG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Dog, pekingese; Polymorphisms; Prion; Species barrier

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; PRION PROTEIN; SERINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CODON; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DOG; FEMALE; GENE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRION DISEASE; PRION PROTEIN GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DOGS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PRIONS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 33747626302     PISSN: 0908665X     EISSN: 13993089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3089.2006.00325.x     Document Type: Article

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