Conserved regional 3' grouping of rare codons in the coding sequence of ocular prosecretory mitogen lacritin

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1979-1987

  McKown, Robert L ^a   Raab, Ronald W ^a   Kachelries, Patricia ^a   Caldwell, Sara ^a   Laurie, Gordon W ^b  

^a JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACRITIN; LIPOCALIN 1; NUCLEOTIDE; TEAR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CATS; CELLS, CULTURED; CODON; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DRY EYE SYNDROMES; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; LACRIMAL APPARATUS; MICE; MUTATION; RNA, MESSENGER; TEARS;

EID: 84875455474     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-10740     Document Type: Article

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