Two novel first exons in the prolactin receptor gene are transcribed in a tissue-specific and sexual maturation-dependent manner to encode multiple 5'-truncated transcripts in the testis of the chicken

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1491, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 279-284

  Tanaka, Minoru ^a   Yamamoto, Ichiro ^a   Hayashida, Yukinobu ^b   Nakao, Nobuhiro ^a   Ohkubo, Takeshi ^a   Wakita, Masaaki ^a   Nakashima, Kunio ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIPPON GENE Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROLACTIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; BINDING SITE; CHICKEN; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEXUAL MATURATION; SHORT SURVEY; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0034712882     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4781(00)00019-1     Document Type: Article

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