Human synemin gene generates splice variants encoding two distinct intermediate filament proteins

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 268, Issue 24, 2001, Pages 6435-6449

  Titeux, Matthias ^a   Brocheriou, Valérie ^a   Xue, Zhigang ^a   Gao, Jie ^a   Pellissier, Jean François ^b   Guicheney, Pascale ^c   Paulin, Denise ^a   Li, Zhenlin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Chromosomal localization; Desminopathies; Isoform; Splicing

Indexed keywords

DESMIN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SYNEMIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTRON; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0035660405     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0014-2956.2001.02594.x     Document Type: Article

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