Identification and characterization of human uracil phosphoribosyltransferase (UPRTase)

Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 415-422

  Li, Jixi ^a,c   Huang, Shengdong ^b   Chen, Jinzhong ^a   Yang, Zhenxing ^a   Fei, Xiangwei ^a   Zheng, Mei ^a   Ji, Chaoneng ^a   Xie, Yi ^a   Mao, Yumin ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary analysis; Human UPRTase; Subcellular location; Tissue distribution

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; URACIL PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BRAIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ISOLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; LIVER; LUNG; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROSTATE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PYRIMIDINE METABOLISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPLEEN; THYMUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PENTOSYLTRANSFERASES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARCHAEA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 34247578712     PISSN: 14345161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10038-007-0129-2     Document Type: Article

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