A unique intronic splicing enhancer controls the inclusion of the agrin Y exon

RNA

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1275-1288

  Wei, Nan ^a,b   Lin, Claudia Q ^a,c   Modafferi, Edward F ^a   Gomes, William A ^a,d   Black, Douglas L ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AMGEN INC   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Neuron; Regulatory sequence

Indexed keywords

AGRIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN 3T3; DNA DETERMINATION; ENHANCER REGION; EXON; GENE MAPPING; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE;

3T3 CELLS; AGRIN; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); EXONS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030690559     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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