Genomic organization of the human rod photoreceptor cGMP-gated cation channel β-subunit gene

Gene

Volumn 245, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 311-318

  Ardell, Michelle D ^a   Bedsole, D Lawrence ^b   Schoborg, Robert V ^a   Pittler, Steven J ^c  

^a East Tennessee State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Gene structure; Phototransduction; Promoter; Retina

Indexed keywords

CATION CHANNEL; CYCLIC GMP;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 16; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RETINA ROD; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; EXONS; EYE PROTEINS; GENES; HUMANS; INTRONS; ION CHANNELS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0034696506     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00023-8     Document Type: Article

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