Multiple variable first exons: A mechanism for cell- and tissue-specific gene regulation

Genome Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 79-89

  Zhang, Theresa ^a   Haws, Peter ^b   Wu, Qiang ^b  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PLECTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; EXON; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA SPLICING; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOSACCHARIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASES; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENY; PLECTIN; RATS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0345874728     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.1225204     Document Type: Article

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