Genomic organization of MUC4 mucin gene: Towards the characterization of splice variants

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 269, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 3637-3644

  Escande, Fabienne ^a,b,c   Lemaitre, Laurent ^a   Moniaux, Nicolas ^d   Batra, Surinder K ^d   Aubert, Jean Pierre ^a,b   Buisine, Marie Pierre ^a,b,c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c UNIV LILLE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Membrane associated; MUC4; Mucin

Indexed keywords

DNA; MUCIN;

ARTICLE; EXON; GENE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MUC4 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036365471     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2002.03032.x     Document Type: Article

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