An inventory of mucin genes in the chicken genome shows that the mucin domain of Muc13 is encoded by multiple exons and that ovomucin is part of a locus of related gel-forming mucins.

Lang, Tiange

An inventory of mucin genes in the chicken genome shows that the mucin domain of Muc13 is encoded by multiple exons and that ovomucin is part of a locus of related gel-forming mucins. [electronic resource] - BMC genomics Aug 2006 - 197 p. digital

Publication Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

1471-2164

10.1186/1471-2164-7-197 doi


Amino Acid Sequence
Animals
Chickens--genetics
Computational Biology--methods
Evolution, Molecular
Exons
Forecasting
Genome
Humans
Membrane Glycoproteins--genetics
Molecular Sequence Data
Mucin 5AC
Mucin-2
Mucin-5B
Mucin-6
Mucins--genetics
Multigene Family
Ovomucin--genetics
Phylogeny
Protein Structure, Tertiary--genetics
Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
Tandem Repeat Sequences
Vertebrates--genetics
Zebrafish--genetics
Zebrafish Proteins--genetics