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A mutation in human CMP-sialic acid hydroxylase occurred after the Homo-Pan divergence.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 29 Sept 1998
Chou H H, Takematsu H, Diaz S, Iber J, Nickerson E, Wright K L, Muchmore E A, Nelson D L, Warren S T, Varki A
Abstract excerpt
Sialic acids are important cell-surface molecules of animals in the deuterostome lineage. Although humans do not express easily detectable amounts of N-glycolylneuraminic acid (Neu5Gc, a hydroxylated form of the common sialic acid N-acetylneuraminic acid, Neu5Ac), it is a major component in great...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA Primers
- DNA, Complementary
- Evolution, Molecular
- Hominidae
- Humans
- In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
- Mice
- Mixed Function Oxygenases
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation