Natural melatonin 'knockdown' in C57BL/6J mice: Rare mechanism truncates serotonin N-acetyltransferase

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 189-197

  Roseboom, Patrick H ^a   Namboodiri, M a Aryan ^a   Zimonjic, Drazen B ^b   Popescu, Nicholas C ^b   R Rodriguez, Ignacio ^c   Gastel, Jonathan A ^a   Klein, David C ^a  

^a Lab Devmtl Neurbio   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

C3H HeJ; Circadian; Cryptic splice acceptor site; Pineal; Retina; RNA splicing

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENE MUTATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MELANOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; ARYLAMINE N-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BRAIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; INTRONS; MELATONIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PINEAL GLAND; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032506662     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(98)00273-3     Document Type: Article

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