Plectin transcript diversity: Identification and tissue distribution of variants with distinct first coding exons and rodless isoforms

Genomics

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 115-125

  Elliott, Candace E ^a   Becker, Bruno ^a,b   Oehler, Susanne ^a   Castañón, Maria J ^c   Hauptmann, Rudolf ^c   Wiche, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM RCV GMBH AND CO KG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; DYSTROPHIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CROSS LINKING; CYTOSKELETON; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA SIMPLEX; EXON; GENE CONTROL; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INTRON; MUSCLE DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 0031570308     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1997.4724     Document Type: Article

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