Stochastic yet biased expression of multiple Dscam splice variants by individual cells

Nature Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 240-246

  Neves, Guilherme ^a   Zucker, Jacob ^a   Daly, Mark ^a   Chess, Andrew ^a,b  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN DSCAM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CELL ISOLATION; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DSCAM GENE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTORECEPTOR R3; PHOTORECEPTOR R4; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; SINGLE CELL REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; PROTEIN ARRAY ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEINS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 1442311559     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1299     Document Type: Article

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