An alternative dystrophin transcript specific to peripheral nerve

Nature Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 77-81

  Byers, Timothy J ^a,b   Lidov, Hart G W ^a   Kunkel, Louis M ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ANTIBODY; DYSTROPHIN; SPECTRIN;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SPECIFICITY; EXON; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN VARIANT; SCHWANN CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DYSTROPHIN; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RATS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; SCIATIC NERVE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0027214837     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0593-77     Document Type: Article

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