The complexity of antisense transcription revealed by the study of developing male germ cells

Genomics

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 681-692

  Chan, Wai Yee ^a,b   Wu, Shao Ming ^a   Ruszczyk, Lisa ^a   Law, Evelyn ^a   Lee, Tin Lap ^a   Baxendale, Vanessa ^a   Lap Yin Pang, Alan ^a   Rennert, Owen M ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antisense transcription; Exon; Intergenic; Intron; Mouse; Pseudogene; Spermatids; Spermatocytes; Spermatogonia

Indexed keywords

PROTAMINE; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM CELL; INTRON; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORIENTATION; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA CAPPING; RNA SPLICING; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTAMINES; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, ANTISENSE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UBIQUITINS;

EID: 33646846293     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: 10898646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2005.12.006     Document Type: Article

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