Structure and regulation of the porcine skeletal α-actin-encoding gene

Gene

Volumn 180, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 23-28

  Reecy, James M ^a,b   Bidwell, Christopher A ^a   Briley, Glenn P ^a,c   Grant, Alan L ^a  

^a Purdue University ^*  (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Muscle contractile protein; Nucleotide sequence; Transcription start point; Transfection

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DNA FRAGMENT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYOBLAST; MYOTUBE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REPORTER GENE; START CODON; SWINE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ACTINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SWINE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0030597350     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00394-0     Document Type: Article

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