Sex-lethal interacts with splicing factors in vitro and in vivo

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 5036-5047

  Deshpande, Girish ^a   Samuels, Mark E ^a   Schedl, Paul D ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN TARGETING; RNA SPLICING; SEX HORMONE DETERMINATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0029785082     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.9.5036     Document Type: Article

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