Copy-number variation of functional galectin genes: Studying animal galectin-7 (p53-induced gene 1 in man) and tandem-repeat-type galectins-4 and -9

Glycobiology

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1152-1163

  Kaltner, Herbert ^a   Raschta, Anne Sarah ^a   Manning, Joachim C ^a   Gabius, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Homology; Lectin; Phylogenesis; Promoter

Indexed keywords

ECALECTIN; GALECTIN 4; GALECTIN 7; PROTEIN P53;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 19Q; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; HUMAN GENOME; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOGENE; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; START CODON; STOP CODON; TANDEM REPEAT;

APOPTOSIS; HOMOLOGY; LECTIN; PHYLOGENESIS; PROMOTER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; GALECTINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 84887890030     PISSN: 09596658     EISSN: 14602423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwt052     Document Type: Article

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