Transcription of the Rat and Mouse Proenkephalin Genes Is Initiated at Distinct Sites in Spermatogenic and Somatic Cells

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 1990, Pages 3717-3726

  Kilpatrick, Daniel L ^a   Zinn, Steven A ^a   Fitzgerald, Mark ^a   Higuchi, Hiroshi ^b   Sabol, Steven L ^b   Meyerhardt, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROENKEPHALIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA; DNA PROBES; ENKEPHALINS; GENES, STRUCTURAL; GENOMIC LIBRARY; INTRONS; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RATS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA PROBES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0025358976     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.10.7.3717     Document Type: Article

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