Fucosyltransferase 8. GDP-fucose N-glycan core α6-fucosyltransferase (FUT8)

Handbook of Glycosyltransferases and Related Genes, Second Edition

Volumn 1, Issue , 2014, Pages 581-596

  Ihara, Hideyuki ^a   Tsukamoto, Hiroki ^a   Gu, Jianguo ^b   Miyoshi, Eiji ^c   Taniguchi, Naoyuki ^d   Ikeda, Yoshitaka ^a  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d RIKEN   (Japan)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-54240-7_59     Document Type: Chapter

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