Alternative trans-splicing of constant and variable exons of a Drosophila axon guidance gene, lola

Genes and Development

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 2496-2501

  Horiuchi, Takayuki ^a   Giniger, Edward ^b   Aigaki, Toshiro ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

BTB Zn finger transcription factor; Pre mRNA processing; Single nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; EXON; GENE; LOLA GENE; LONGITUDINALS LACKING GENE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA SPLICING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

LOLA;

EID: 0142027944     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1137303     Document Type: Article

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