The 36-kilodalton embryonic-type cytoplasmic polyadenylation element- binding protein in Xenopus laevis is ElrA, a member of the ELAV family of RNA-binding proteins

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 6402-6409

  Wu, Lin ^a   Good, Peter J ^b,c   Richter, Joel D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; POLYADENYLIC ACID; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA TRANSLATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0030799124     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.17.11.6402     Document Type: Article

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