The bicistronic MOCS1 gene has alternative start codons on two mutually exclusive exons

Molecular Genetics and Metabolism

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 340-343

  Gross Hardt, Sigrid ^a   Reiss, Jochen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alternative splice forms; Cofactor; MOCS1; Molybdenum

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ISOPROTEIN; PRIMER DNA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN MOCS1A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CISTRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRON; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN VARIANT; RNA SPLICING; START CODON; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON, INITIATOR; EXONS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0036387191     PISSN: 10967192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1096-7192(02)00100-2     Document Type: Article

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