MEC-8 regulates alternative splicing of unc-52 transcripts in C. elegans hypodermal cells

Development

Volumn 129, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 4999-5008

  Spike, Caroline A ^a   Davies, Andrew A ^a   Shaw, Jocelyn E ^a   Herman, Robert K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Mec 8; Perlecan; RRM; Unc 52

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PERLECAN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; LARVAL STAGE; MALE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SKIN CELL; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HYPODERRIS; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0036850762     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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