Differential and inefficient splicing of a broadly expressed Drosophila erect wing transcript results in tissue-specific enrichment of the vital EWG protein isoform

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 3998-4007

  Koushika, Sandhya P ^a,b   Soller, Matthias ^b   DeSimone, Susan M ^b   Daub, Douglas M ^b   White, Kalpana ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; INTRON; MYOBLAST; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

DROSOPHILA;

EID: 0032973311     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.6.3998     Document Type: Article

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