A 5' splice site-proximal enhancer binds SF1 and activates exon bridging of a microexon

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 3988-3995

  Carlo, Troy ^a,b   Sierra, Rebecca ^a   Berget, Susan M ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANS ACTING FACTOR; TROPONIN T;

ARTICLE; CROSS LINKING; ENHANCER REGION; EXON; GENE SEQUENCE; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLICEOSOME;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL EXTRACTS; CHICKENS; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); EXONS; FUSHI TARAZU TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HELA CELLS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RNA; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOMES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TROPONIN T; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034124054     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.20.11.3988-3995.2000     Document Type: Article

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