The use of antibodies to the polypyrimidine tract binding protein (PTB) to analyze the protein components that assemble on alternatively spliced pre- mRNAs that use distant branch points

RNA

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 613-625

  Grossman, Jill S ^a   Meyer, Mirjam I ^a,b   Wang, Yung Chih ^a   Mulligan, George J ^a,c   Kobayashi, Ryuji ^a   Helfman, David M ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative RNA splicing; Polypyrimidine tract binding protein

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA BINDING;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BIOTIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POLYPYRIMIDINE TRACT-BINDING PROTEIN; PRECIPITIN TESTS; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; STREPTAVIDIN; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TROPOMYOSIN;

EID: 0031777384     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838298971448     Document Type: Article

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