APP gene family: Alternative splicing generates functionally related isoforms

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 777, Issue , 1996, Pages 281-287

  Sandbrink, R ^a   Masters, C L ^b   Beyreuther, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEOCHONDROITIN SULFATE; PROTEOGLYCAN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RAT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029970325     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1996.tb34433.x     Document Type: Article

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