... inflammation [27] and oncogenictransformation [28,29].BLASTanalysis of the mouse and human genomedatabases allowed us to identify an unknown sialyltrans-ferase gene encoding a second Galb1–4GlcNAc ... analysed by radio-imaging.Multiple tissue expression array and northern analysis An EcoRI–BamHI 1.6 kb fragment of the human ST6GalII cDNA and a 1.8 kb human b-actin cDNA (Clontech)used as a positive ... occipital and parietal lobe and salivary gland.Almost no expression was observed in fetal lung and heart,uterus, bladder, kidney, duodenum, trachea, Burkitt’s lym-phoma, and colorectal adenocarcinoma....