Aberrant splicing of the Drosophila melanogaster phenylalanine hydroxylase pre-mRNA caused by the insertion of a B104/roo transposable element in the Henna locus

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 311-318

  Ruiz Vázquez, Pilar ^a   Silva, Francisco J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Henna locus; Phenylalanine hydroxylase; Pteridine; Transposable element; Tryptophan hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; PHENYLALANINE 4 MONOOXYGENASE; RNA PRECURSOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYMOLOGY; EXON; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; TRANSPOSON;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXONS; GENES, INSECT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHENYLALANINE HYDROXYLASE; RNA PRECURSORS;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; LAWSONIA INERMIS; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 17044449264     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(99)00002-8     Document Type: Article

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