Human choline acetyltransferase mRNAs with different 5′-region produce a 69-kDa major translation product

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 323-333

  Misawa, Hidemi ^a   Matsuura, Junko ^a   Oda, Yoshio ^b   Takahashi, Ryosuke ^a   Deguchi, Takeo ^a,c  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c BML   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; cDNA cloning; Choline acetyltransferase; Human brain; Initiation codon; Translation efficiency

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MONKEY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; SPINAL CORD; START CODON; SWINE; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHO CELLS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON; CRICETINAE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXONS; HUMANS; MACACA; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; SUS SCROFA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031046230     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(96)00231-8     Document Type: Article

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