Cloning of a kallikrein pseudogene

Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 961-967

  Yousef, George M ^a   Borgono, Carla A ^b,c   Michael, Iacovos P ^b,c   Diamandis, Eleftherios P ^b,c  

^a Health Care Corporation of St John's   (Canada)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer biomarkers; Kallikreins; Pseudogene; Serine proteases

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; CYSTEINE; HISTIDINE; KALLIKREIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; SERINE; SERINE PROTEINASE;

ADRENAL GLAND; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GENE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS; INTRON; KLK2 GENE; KLK4 GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PSEUDOGENE; PSI KLK1 GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TESTIS; TISSUE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; KALLIKREINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PSEUDOGENES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 6344220185     PISSN: 00099120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2004.07.012     Document Type: Article

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