Gene organization and chromosome location of the neural-specific RNA binding protein Elavl4

Gene

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 139-145

  Inman, Michael V ^a   Levy, Samuel ^b   Mock, Beverly A ^c   Owens, Geoffrey C ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Neurosci Train Prog Rocky Mt C   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative mRNA splicing; Chromosome 4; Homology modeling; Hu antigen; Sex lethal

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 4; EXON; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGING; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC MARKERS; HU PARANEOPLASTIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS ANTIGENS; INTRONS; MICE; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0032570832     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00615-X     Document Type: Article

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