Toward Comprehensive Analysis of the Galectin Network in Chicken: Unique Diversity of Galectin-3 and Comparison of its Localization Profile in Organs of Adult Animals to the Other Four Members of this Lectin Family

Anatomical Record

Volumn 294, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 427-444

  Kaltner, Herbert ^a   Kübler, Dieter ^b   López Merino, Lara ^c   Lohr, Michaela ^a   Manning, Joachim C ^a   Lensch, Martin ^a   Seidler, Joerg ^b   Lehmann, Wolf D ^b   André, Sabine ^a   Solís, Dolores ^c,d   Gabius, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA FÍSICA ROCASOLANO   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Epithelium; Lectin; Macrophages; Phylogeny; Promoter region

Indexed keywords

GALECTIN; GALECTIN 1; GALECTIN 1A; GALECTIN 1B; GALECTIN 2; GALECTIN 3; GALECTIN 8; MESSENGER RNA; NEOGLYCOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT ANIMAL; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING ASSAY; BIODIVERSITY; CHICKEN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; TISSUE CULTURE CELL;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHICKENS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GALECTIN 3; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79951748301     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.21341     Document Type: Article

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