Multiple transcripts of the murine immunoglobulin ε membrane locus are generated by alternative splicing and differential usage of two polyadenylation sites

Molecular Immunology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 175-183

  Anand, Shubha ^a   Batista, Facundo D ^a   Tkach, Tatiana ^a   Efremov, Dimitar G ^a   Burrone, Oscar R ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

alternative splicing; IgE heavy chain; mouse immunoglobulin; polyadenylation

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EXON; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; POLYADENYLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN EPSILON-CHAINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLY A; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0030916203     PISSN: 01615890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-5890(96)00110-1     Document Type: Article

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