A potential role of alternative splicing in the regulation of the transcriptional activity of human GLI2 in gonadal tissues

BMC Molecular Biology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Speek, Mart ^a   Njunkova, Olga ^a,b   Pata, Illar ^a,b   Valdre, Eola ^b,c   Kogerman, Priit ^a,b  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS AND BIOPHYSICS   (Estonia)

^c East Tallinn Central Hospital   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE; MESSENGER RNA; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC CODE; GONAD; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPORTER GENE; REPRESSOR GENE; RNA TRANSLATION; STOP CODON; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; EXONS; FEMALE; GONADS; HUMANS; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

ANIMALIA; ERINACEIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33645763522     PISSN: 14712199     EISSN: 14712199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2199-7-13     Document Type: Article

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