Quantification of G protein Gαs subunit splice variants in different human tissues and cells using pyrosequencing

Gene Expression

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 69-81

  Frey, Ulrich H ^a   Nückel, Holger ^a   Dobrev, Dobromir ^b   Manthey, Iris ^a   Sandalcioglu, I E ^a   Eisenhardt, Andreas ^a   Worm, Karl ^a   Hauner, Hans ^c   Siffert, Winfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b Inst fur Pharmakol und Toxikologie   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

G proteins; Pyrosequencing; Quantification; Signal transduction; Splice variants

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN GAMMA SUBUNIT; ISOPRENALINE; MESSENGER RNA; SERINE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOBLAST; CELL FUNCTION; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CELL STIMULATION; HEART; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOCYTE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN VARIANT; PYROSEQUENCING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; RETINOBLASTOMA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 17644391787     PISSN: 10522166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/000000005783992124     Document Type: Article

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