Unique gene organization: Alternative splicing in Drosophila produces two structurally unrelated proteins

Gene

Volumn 198, Issue 2 JAN, 1997, Pages 229-236

  Mottus, Randy C ^a   Whitehead, Ian P ^a,b   O'Grady, Michael ^a   Sobel, Richard E ^a   Burr, Rod H L ^a   Spiegelman, George B ^a   Grigliatti, Thomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CEP80; Ribosomal protein; S27a; Ub80; Ubiquitin fusion

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; HYBRID PROTEIN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CODING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTE; EXON; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENES, INSECT; GENES, OVERLAPPING; IMMUNOLOGIC TECHNIQUES; INSECT PROTEINS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UBIQUITINS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030716914     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(97)00319-3     Document Type: Article

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