Role of an inhibitory pyrimidine element and polypyrimidine tract binding protein in repression of a regulated α-tropomyosin exon

RNA

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 85-100

  Gooding, Clare ^a   Roberts, Gavin C ^a   Smith, Christopher W J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Polypyrimidine tract binding protein (PTB); Smooth muscle; Tropomyosin

Indexed keywords

TROPOMYOSIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; EXON; HELA CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SMOOTH MUSCLE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; EXONS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYPYRIMIDINE TRACT-BINDING PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA; RNA SPLICING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TROPOMYOSIN; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031985529     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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