An alternatively spliced form of the human CD94 gene

Immunogenetics

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 87-88

  Furukawa, Hiroshi ^a,b   Yabe, Toshio ^a   Watanabe, Kaoru ^a   Miyamoto, Ritsuko ^a   Akaza, Tatsuya ^a   Tadokoro, Kenji ^a   Tohma, Shigeto ^b   Inoue, Tetsufumi ^b   Yamamoto, Kazuhiko ^b   Juji, Takeo ^b  

^a JAPANESE RED CROSS MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; CD94; Lectin; NK receptor; Type II transmembrane protein

Indexed keywords

CD94 ANTIGEN; CELL RECEPTOR; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1; LECTIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CYTOTOXICITY; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD94; EXONS; HUMANS; LECTINS, C-TYPE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 7144259772     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050407     Document Type: Article

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