Diverse splicing mechanisms fuse the evolutionarily conserved bicistronic MOCS1A and MOCS1B open reading frames

RNA

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 928-936

  Gray, Todd A ^a   Nicholls, Robert D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Molybdenum; mRNA splicing; Polycistronic; Translation regulation

Indexed keywords

MOLYBDENUM; MOLYBDOPTERIN;

ARTICLE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSLATION; STOP CODON; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CATTLE; CHICKENS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPOSSUMS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RABBITS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

DIDELPHIDAE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GALLUS GALLUS; INVERTEBRATA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033930936     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838200000182     Document Type: Article

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