An unusual primate locus that attracted two independent Alu insertions and facilitates their transcription

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 350, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 200-214

  Ludwig, A ^a,b   Rozhdestvensky, T S ^a   Kuryshev, V Yu ^a,c   Schmitz, J ^a   Brosius, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alu elements; Neuronal transcription; Primate evolution; Retronuons; Small non messenger RNA

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMICS; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROSIMIAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EULEMUR CORONATUS; GALAGO MOHOLI; LEMURIFORMES; LORISIFORMES; PRIMATES;

EID: 20444425693     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.03.058     Document Type: Article

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