Alternative splicing of mouse IL-15 is due to the use of an internal splice site in exon 5

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 155-162

  Prinz, Marco ^a   Hanisch, Uwe Karsten ^a   Kettenmann, Helmut ^a   Kirchhoff, Frank ^a  

^a MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Brain macrophages; Interleukin 15; Single cell RT PCR

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 15;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH REGULATION; MICROGLIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CODON, INITIATOR; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; EXONS; INTERLEUKIN-15; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICROGLIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032506693     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(98)00284-8     Document Type: Article

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