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Expansion of mouse involucrin by intra-allelic repeat addition.
Gene - 11 Jul 2000
Delhomme B, Djian P
Abstract excerpt
Involucrin, loricrin and the small proline-rich proteins (SPRRs) are precursors of the cornified envelope of terminally differentiated keratinocytes. The genes for these proteins are closely linked on mouse chromosome 3. Each of the proteins is encoded by a single exon and is largely composed of a segment of short tandem repeats. No size polymorphism of either loricrin or the SPRRs was observed. In contrast,...
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