Heat-shock inducible polyubiquitin gene UbI undergoes alternative initiation and alternative splicing in mature chicken testes

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 471-475

  Mezquita, J ^a   Pau, M ^a   Mezquita, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

heat shock promoters; meiotic and postmeiotic cells; spermatogenesis; ubiquitin gene expression

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; POLYUBIQUITIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA REPAIR; ENDOCYTOSIS; HEAT SHOCK; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOPOLYMERS; CHICKENS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYUBIQUITIN; SPERMATOGENESIS; TATA BOX; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UBIQUITINS;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0030890265     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199704)46:4<471::AID-MRD4>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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