Structure of the mouse metalloprotease meprin β gene (Mep1b): Alternative splicing in cancer cells

Gene

Volumn 248, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 77-87

  Jiang, Weiping ^a   Kumar, Janet M ^a   Matters, Gail L ^a   Bond, Judith S ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome 18; Differential expression; Exon intron organization; Protease

Indexed keywords

ISOENZYME; MEPRIN; MESSENGER RNA; METALLOPROTEINASE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, YEAST; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENES; HUMANS; INTRONS; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASMS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0034595314     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00143-8     Document Type: Article

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