A complex pattern of evolutionary conservation and alternative polyadenylation within the long 3'-untranslated region of the methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 gene (MeCP2) suggests a regulatory role in gene expression

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1253-1262

  Coy, Johannes F ^a   Sedlacek, Zdenek ^a,c   Bächner, Dietmar ^b   Delius, Hajo ^a   Poustka, Annemarie ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CONTIG; RNA;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHIMPANZEE; CHROMOSOME XQ; ENERGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HAMSTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KANGAROO; MACACA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; ORANG UTAN; ORGANOGENESIS; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; RNA STRUCTURE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ADENINE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRICETINAE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; METHYL-CPG-BINDING PROTEIN 2; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RATS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0032776138     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/8.7.1253     Document Type: Article

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