Alternative splicing creates sex-specific transcripts and truncated forms of the furin protease in the parasite Dirofilaria immitis

Gene

Volumn 237, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 161-175

  Jin, Jingmin ^a   Poole, Catherine B ^a   Slatko, Barton E ^a   McReynolds, Larry A ^a  

^a NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS   (United States)

Author keywords

Filarial nematode; RNA splicing; Subtilisins

Indexed keywords

FURIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NEMATODE; PARASITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; FEMALE; FURIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SEX FACTORS; SUBTILISINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TYROSINE;

DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0032817781     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00282-6     Document Type: Article

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