Combinatorial control of a neuron-specific exon

RNA

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 687-706

  Modafferi, Edward F ^a   Black, Douglas L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Box 951662 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Neuron; Regulatory sequence

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; ENHANCER REGION; EXON; GENE CONTROL; GENE REPRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; REPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); EXONS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENES, SRC; HUMANS; INTRONS; KIDNEY; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS PP60(C-SRC); REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; TRANSFECTION;

RODENTIA;

EID: 0032916285     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838299990155     Document Type: Article

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