Extraordinarily high density of unrelated genes showing overlapping and intraintronic transcription units

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1492, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 269-270

  Misener, Stephen R ^a   Walker, Virginia K ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gene cluster; Intraintronic transcript; Overlapping transcript; Pyrroline 5 carboxylate reductase

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PYRROLINE 5 CARBOXYLATE REDUCTASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENES, OVERLAPPING; GENOME; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PYRROLINE CARBOXYLATE REDUCTASES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0034697828     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4781(00)00096-8     Document Type: Article

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