Ancient insights into uric acid metabolism in primates

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3657-3658

  Chang, Belinda S W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; ENZYME; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; URATE OXIDASE; URIC ACID;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SYNTHESIS; GOUT; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIVER DISEASE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; NUCLEIC ACID METABOLISM; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; URATE OXIDASE;

EID: 84896273971     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1401037111     Document Type: Note

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