Defining the regulatory network of the tissue-specific splicing factors Fox-1 and Fox-2

Genes and Development

Volumn 22, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 2550-2563

  Zhang, Chaolin ^a,b   Zhang, Zuo ^a   Castle, John ^c   Sun, Shuying ^a,d   Johnson, Jason ^c   Krainer, Adrian R ^a   Zhang, Michael Q ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b St Francis Hospital The Heart Center   (United States)

^c ROSETTA INPHARMATICS   (United States)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative genomics; Fox 2 RBM9; Fox l A2BP1; Splicing regulatory network; Tissue specific alternative splicing; UGCAUG

Indexed keywords

FOX 1 PROTEIN; FOX 2 PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

BINDING SITES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 51949111100     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1703108     Document Type: Article

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