Regulation of fibronectin EDA exon alternative splicing: Possible role of RNA secondary structure for enhancer display

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 2657-2671

  Muro, Andrés F ^a   Caputi, Massimo ^a,b   Pariyarath, Rajalakshmi ^a,c   Pagani, Franco ^a   Buratti, Emanuele ^a   Baralle, Francisco E ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; ENHANCER REGION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPTIDE MAPPING; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA STRUCTURE;

EID: 0032913877     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.4.2657     Document Type: Article

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