An altered intron inhibits synthesis of the acetylcholine receptor α- subunit in the paralyzed zebrafish mutant nic1

Genetics

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 361-372

  Sepich, Diane S ^a,b   Wegner, Jeremy ^a   O'Shea, Sherry ^a   Westerfield, Monte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; INTRON; MALE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; RNA SPLICING; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 0031907133     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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