Preferential pre-mRNA utilisation of an upstream cryptic 5' splice site created by a single base deletion mutation in exon 37 of the FBN-1 gene

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 256, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 221-228

  Gibson, Mark A ^a   Ellis, Sarah L ^a   Ades, Lesley C ^b   Haan, Eric ^b   Cleary, Edward G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cryptic splicing; Exon mutation; Fibrillin; Marfan syndrome

Indexed keywords

FIBRILLIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; MARFAN SYNDROME; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN FIBROBLAST;

EID: 0032529150     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1998.2560221.x     Document Type: Article

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