Alternate promoters and alternate splicing of human tenascin-X, a gene with 5' and 3' ends buried in other genes

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1749-1758

  Speek, Mart ^a,b   Barry, Floyd ^a   Miller, Walter L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; FIBRONECTIN; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE; TENASCIN;

ADRENAL CORTEX CARCINOMA; ADRENAL GLAND; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 6P; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FETUS; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUSCLE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENOCORTICAL CARCINOMA; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; EXONS; GENES, OVERLAPPING; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, MESSENGER; TENASCIN; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0029834026     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/5.11.1749     Document Type: Article

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