RNA secondary structures located in the interchromosomal region of human ACAT1 chimeric mRNA are required to produce the 56-kDa isoform

Cell Research

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 921-936

  Chen, Jia ^a   Zhao, Xiao Nan ^a   Yang, Li ^a   Hu, Guang Jing ^a   Lu, Ming ^a   Xiong, Ying ^a   Yang, Xin Ying ^a   Chang, Catherine C Y ^b   Song, Bao Liang ^a   Chang, Ta Yuan ^b   Li, Bo Liang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimeric human ACAT1 mRNA; Human ACAT1 isoform; Interchromosomal region; Internal ribosome entry site; RNA secondary structure

Indexed keywords

ACAT1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; ACETYL COENZYME A ACETYLTRANSFERASE; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHO CELL; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 7; CODON; CONFORMATION; CRICETULUS; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HAMSTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME; RNA STABILITY;

ACETYL-COA C-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CHO CELLS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 1; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 7; CODON; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RIBOSOMES; RNA; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 51049122579     PISSN: 10010602     EISSN: 17487838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/cr.2008.66     Document Type: Article

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