Genomic organization and structure of the 5′-flanking region of the TEX101 gene: Alternative promoter usage and splicing generate transcript variants with distinct 5′-untranslated region

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 154-162

  Tsukamoto, Hiroki ^a   Takizawa, Toshihiro ^b   Takamori, Kenji ^a   Ogawa, Hideoki ^a   Araki, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gene structure; Mouse; Ovary; Testis; TEX101

Indexed keywords

CELL ANTIGEN; GENE PRODUCT; LUCIFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN TEX101; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL LINE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; EXON; FEMALE; FETUS; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GERM CELL; GONAD; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN VARIANT; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA TRANSLATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTIS CELL; TEX101 GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, REPORTER; MALE; MAMMALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVARY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33846019265     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20584     Document Type: Article

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