Alternative splicing of mouse α1(XIII) collagen RNAs results in at least 17 different transcripts, predicting α1(XIII) collagen chains with length varying between 651 and 710 amino acid residues

DNA and Cell Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 227-234

  Peltonen, Sirkku ^a,b,c   Rehn, Marko ^a   Pihlajaniemi, Taina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENE STRUCTURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0031043070     PISSN: 10445498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/dna.1997.16.227     Document Type: Article

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