The expression of the human steroid sulfatase-encoding gene is driven by alternative first exons

Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 22-29

  Dalla Valle, Luisa ^a   Toffolo, Vania ^a   Nardi, Alessia ^a   Fiore, Cristina ^a   Armanini, Decio ^a   Belvedere, Paola ^a   Colombo, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alternative first exons; Human; Steroid sulfatase; Tissue specific transcription

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; STERYL SULFATASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; EXON; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; STEROIDOGENESIS; STS GENE; TATA BOX; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; STERYL-SULFATASE;

EID: 34548439407     PISSN: 09600760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2007.05.004     Document Type: Article

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