Cloning and analysis of unique human glutaminase isoforms generated by tissue-specific alternative splicing

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 1999, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 51-62

  Elgadi, Khaled M ^b   Meguid, Robert A ^b   Qian, Ming ^b   Souba, Wiley W ^b   Abcouwer, Steve F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Brain; CAG repeat polymorphisms; Gene expression; Glutamine metabolism; Kidney; Mammary adenocarcinoma; Mitochondrial proteins; mRNA processing; Muscle

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUTAMINASE; ISOENZYME; MESSENGER RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GLUTAMINASE; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0033620972     PISSN: 15312267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.1999.1.2.51     Document Type: Article

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