Up71 and Up140, two novel transcripts of utrophin that are homologues of short forms of dystrophin

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1271-1278

  Wilson, James ^a   Putt, Wendy ^a   Jimenez, Cecilia ^a   Edwards, Yvonne H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYSTROPHIN; MESSENGER RNA; UTROPHIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; EXON; GENE CONTROL; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SYNAPSE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DYSTROPHIN; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UTROPHIN;

EID: 0032770342     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/8.7.1271     Document Type: Article

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