The mouse thymosin β4 gene: Structure, promoter identification, and chromosome localization

Genomics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 388-394

  Li, Xun ^a   Zimmerman, Anton ^a   Copeland, Neal G ^b   Gilbert, Debra J ^b   Jenkins, Nancy A ^b   Yin, Helen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYMOSIN; MESSENGER RNA; THYMOSIN BETA(4);

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; DEPOLYMERIZATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC REGULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; X CHROMOSOME; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CHROMOSOME MAP; EXON; GENE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, MESSENGER; THYMOSIN; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0029657924     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1996.0133     Document Type: Article

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