Organization, structure and alternate splicing of the murine RFC-1 gene encoding a folate transporter

Gene

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-7

  Tolner, Berend ^a   Roy, Krishnendu ^a   Sirotnak, F M ^a,b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Weill Cornell Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Folate transport; Murine RFC 1 gene

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FOLIC ACID;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; EXON; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN VARIANT;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE ECORI; EXONS; FOLIC ACID; GENE LIBRARY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030895504     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00676-2     Document Type: Article

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