Phenotype-based clustering of glycosylation-related genes by RNAi-mediated gene silencing

Genes to Cells

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 521-542

  Yamamoto Hino, Miki ^a,b   Yoshida, Hideki ^b,c,d   Ichimiya, Tomomi ^c   Sakamura, Sho ^e   Maeda, Megumi ^e   Kimura, Yoshinobu ^e   Sasaki, Norihiko ^c,f   Aoki Kinoshita, Kiyoko F ^c   Kinoshita Toyoda, Akiko ^b,g   Toyoda, Hidenao ^b,g   Ueda, Ryu ^b,h   Nishihara, Shoko ^b,c   Goto, Satoshi ^a,b  

^a RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c SOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^g RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCAN DERIVATIVE; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; NOTCH RECEPTOR; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC DISORDER; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN METABOLISM; GLYCOSYLATION RELATED GENE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; GLYCOSYLATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; GENE SILENCING; GLYCOSYLATION; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHENOTYPE; POLYSACCHARIDES; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 84930274423     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: 13652443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gtc.12246     Document Type: Article

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