Polypyrimidine tract-binding protein positively regulates inclusion of an alternative 3'-terminal exon

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 78-85

  Lou, Hua ^a   Helfman, David M ^c   Gagel, Robert F ^b   Berget, Susan M ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; MESSENGER RNA; PYRIMIDINE; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA PRECURSOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHO CELL; ENHANCER REGION; EXON; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0032938851     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.1.78     Document Type: Article

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