Cardiac elav-type RNA-binding protein (ETR-3) binds to RNA CUG repeats expanded in myotonic dystrophy

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 53-60

  Lu, Xiaohui ^a   Timchenko, Nikolai A ^a   Timchenko, Lubov T ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DNA PROBE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOCARDIUM; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 0032906538     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/8.1.53     Document Type: Article

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