Human glucocorticoid receptor α transcript splice variants with exon 2 deletions: Evidence for tissue- and cell type-specific functions

Biochemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 7395-7405

  Geng, Chuan Dong ^a   Pedersen, Kim Brint ^a   Nunez, B Scott ^a,b   Vedeckis, Wayne V ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; FLUORESCENCE; GENES; HORMONES; PROTEINS;

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS (EGFP); HORMONAL STIMULATION; HUMAN GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTORS (HGR); REPORTER GENES;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR ALPHA; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR BETA; LUCIFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LEVEL; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN VARIANT; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA TRANSLATION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CEREBELLUM; CODON, INITIATOR; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; COS CELLS; EXONS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; JURKAT CELLS; LEUKEMIA, T-CELL, ACUTE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

EID: 18844424643     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi047485e     Document Type: Article

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