A single glutamine synthetase gene produces tissue-specific subcellular localization by alternative splicing

FEBS Letters

Volumn 579, Issue 25, 2005, Pages 5527-5534

  Matthews, Gideon D ^a   Gould, Robert M ^b   Vardimon, Lily ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Dogfish shark; Glutamine synthetase; Mitochondrial targeting signal; Urea cycle

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DOGFISH; EXON; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; RAT; START CODON; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CYTOPLASM; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; ISOENZYMES; LIVER; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, MESSENGER; SPINAL CORD; SQUALUS ACANTHIAS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UREA;

SQUALIDAE; SQUALUS ACANTHIAS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 26844488226     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2005.08.082     Document Type: Article

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