Human glycogene cloning: focus on β3-glycosyltransferase and β4-glycosyltransferase families

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 567-575

  Narimatsu, Hisashi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE BETA 3; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE BETA 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

EID: 33749044817     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2006.09.001     Document Type: Review

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