Isolation and characterization of Rac1 pseudogenes (ψ 1Rac1- ψ 4Rac1) in the human genome

Gene

Volumn 341, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 189-197

  Kugler, Matthias Christian ^a,b   Gerhard, Markus ^b   Schnelzer, Andreas ^b   Borzym, Katja ^c   Reinhardt, Richard ^c   Schmitt, Manfred ^b   Lengyel, Ernst ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Pseudogene; Rac1; Retrotransposon; Rho GTPase

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA; RAC1 PROTEIN; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BREAST TUMOR; CHROMOSOME 13; CHROMOSOME 4; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENOME; INTRON; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOGENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TUMOR CELL LINE; X CHROMOSOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROPEPTIDES; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOGENES; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RAC1 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 5044235417     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2004.06.045     Document Type: Article

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