Two additional 5′ exons in the human Vigilin gene distinguish it from the chicken gene and provide the structural basis for differential routes of gene expression

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 238, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 410-417

  Kügler, Sebastian ^a   Plenz, Gabriele ^b   Müller, Peter K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Exon acquisition; Gene evolution; Upstream open reading frame

Indexed keywords

GALLUS GALLUS;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA BINDING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STOP CODON; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHICKENS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON, INITIATOR; DNA PRIMERS; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 0029974366     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.0410z.x     Document Type: Article

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