The fibronectin gene as a model for splicing and transcription studies

FASEB Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 248-257

  Kornblihtt, A R ^a,b   Pesce, C G ^a   Alonso, C R ^a   Cramer, P ^a   Srebrow, A ^a   Werbajh, S ^a   Muro, A F ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Argentina)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

alternative splicing; cell binding; extra domain I; transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; FIBRONECTIN; GROWTH FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; CELL MATURATION; CELL TYPE; DOWN REGULATION; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRUS TRANSFORMATION;

EID: 0029936745     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.10.2.8641558     Document Type: Review

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