C-type lectin-like domains in Fugu rubripes

BMC Genomics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Zelensky, Alex N ^a   Gready, Jill E ^a  

^a Biology and Environment   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRECAN; ANTIFREEZE PROTEIN; BREVICAN; CALCIUM DEPENDENT LECTIN LIKE DOMAIN PROTEIN; CD209 ANTIGEN; CELL PROTEIN; CELL RECEPTOR; ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; HERMES ANTIGEN; L SELECTIN; LINK PROTEIN; LITHOSTATHINE; MAJOR BASIC PROTEIN; MANNOSE RECEPTOR; NEUROCAN; PADGEM PROTEIN; POLYCYSTIN 1; SCAVENGER RECEPTOR; TETRANECTIN; THROMBOMODULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERSICAN; LECTIN;

COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERNET; INVERTEBRATE; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLESIOMORPHY; PREDICTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PUFFER FISH; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VERTEBRATE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FISH; GENE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER; METAZOA; TAKIFUGU; TAKIFUGU RUBRIPES; VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FISHES; GENE DUPLICATION; GENES; HUMANS; LECTINS, C-TYPE; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TAKIFUGU;

EID: 9444231673     PISSN: 14712164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-5-51     Document Type: Review

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