An intron enhancer recognized by splicing factors activates polyadenylation

Genes and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 208-219

  Lou, Hua ^a   Gagel, Robert F ^a   Berget, Susan M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

calcitonin; intron enhancer; Polyadenylation; polypyrimidine tract binding protein; splicing

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CALCITONIN; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; POLYADENYLIC ACID; PYRIMIDINE; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; EXON; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0030067593     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.2.208     Document Type: Article

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