Complex expression pattern of RPGR reveals a role for purine-rich exonic splicing enhancers

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 3373-3382

  Hong, Dong Hyun ^a   Li, Tiansen ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE REGULATOR PROTEIN; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENHANCER REGION; ENZYME REGULATION; EXON; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; COS CELLS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); EXONS; EYE PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MICE; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PURINES; RABBITS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0036846601     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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